Ezra Pound Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

  Ezra Pound

  Peace, Real, War

  Ezra Pound (1970). “A Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

• The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.

  Ezra Pound

  Artist, Giving, Doe

  Ezra Pound (1950). “Patria Mia”, Chicago, Seymour

• The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  Ezra Pound (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.147, New Directions Publishing

• A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

  Ezra Pound

  Men, Civilization, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

• Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

  Ezra Pound

  Squares, Giving, Mind

• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

  Ezra Pound

  Passion, White, Giving

  Ezra Pound (1990). “Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)”, p.101, New Directions Publishing

• As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.

  Ezra Pound

  Giving Up, Boys, Men

  'Hugh Selwyn Mauberley' (1920) 'Mr Nixon'

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