Ezra Pound Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Poetry must be as well written as prose.

  Ezra Pound

  Poetry, Wells, Prose

  Letter to Harriet Monroe, Jan. 1915

• To break the pentameter, that was the first heave

  Ezra Pound

  Poetry, Firsts, Break

  Ezra Pound (1996). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.538, New Directions Publishing

• Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Sound

• In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

  Ezra Pound

  Order, Ideas, Rose

• In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

  Ezra Pound

  Poetry, Elements, Likes

• The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

  Ezra Pound

  Art, Poetry, Pigment

  Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.152, New Directions Publishing

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