{"author":"Ezra Pound","author_id":"Ezra+Pound","total_quotes":56,"quotes":[{"text":"Literature is news that stays news.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["books","literature","reading"],"id":807,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"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. It was a sort of metaphor, but she was not using it as ornamentation.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["creativity","language","poetry"],"id":9538,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"Utter originality is  of course  out of the question.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["originality"],"id":17356,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["chance","people","real "],"id":24327,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["art","sculpture","barber "],"id":36548,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"Artists are the antennae of the race  but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["art","artist"],"id":45890,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"Winter is icummen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slopAnd how the wind doth ramm!Sing: Goddamm.Skiddeth bus and sloppeth us,An ague hath my ham.Freezeth river, turneth liverDamn you, sing: Goddamm.Goddamm, Goddamm, tis why I am,Goddamm.So 'gainst the winter's balmSing Goddamm, damm, sing GoddammSing Goddamm, sing Goddamm,DAMM.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["seasons","time","winter"],"id":50093,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"Love thou thy dreamAll base love scorning,Love thou the windAnd here take warningThat dreams alone can truly be,For 'tis in dream I come to thee.Ezra Pound, The Songtrad. Ungaretti:Ama il tuo sogno Ama il tuo sognoOgni inferiore amore disprezzando,Il vento amaEd accorgiti quiChe I sogni solo possono veramente essere,Perciò in sogno a raggiungerti m’avvio.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["amore","dream","dreams","english-poetry","errori","love","passion","passione","poesia","pound","sogni","traduzione","ungaretti"],"id":53902,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is in the care of the damned and despised litterati...When their very medium, the very essence of their work, the application of word to thing goes rotten, I.E. Becomes slushy and inexact, or excessive or bloated, the whole machinery of social and of individual thought and order goes to pot.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["literati","writing"],"id":90351,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"},{"text":"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.","author":"Ezra Pound","tags":["system","hold","point "],"id":96871,"author_id":"Ezra+Pound"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":56,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}