Ezra Pound Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

  Ezra Pound

  Language, Language Learning, Humans

  Sophocles, Ezra Pound, Rudd Fleming, Carey Perloff (1990). “Elektra”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

• Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

  Ezra Pound

  Inspirational, Hygiene, Degrees

  How to Read pt. 2 (1931)

• A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

  Ezra Pound

  Age, Literature, Language

  John Patrick Sullivan, Ezra Pound, Sextus Propertius (1964). “Ezra Pound and Sextus Propertius: a study in creative translation”

• Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

  Ezra Pound

  Writing, Pounds, Language

  Ezra Pound, Marcella Spann (1964). “Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

• And the betrayers of language ...... n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters of language, the perverts, who have set money-lust Before the pleasures of the senses; howling, as of a hen-yard in a printing-house, the clatter of presses, the blowing of dry dust and stray paper, foetor, sweat, the stench of stale oranges.

  Ezra Pound

  Dust, Sweat, Orange

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

• The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

  Ezra Pound

  Degrees, Language, Form

  Sophocles, Ezra Pound, Rudd Fleming, Carey Perloff (1990). “Elektra”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

• I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Children, Light

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.204, New Directions Publishing

• Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

  Ezra Pound

  Essentials, Language, Poetry Is

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