"It is better to present one Image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous works."
- A Few 'Don’ts'
- The full-length essay, along with his "Retrospect" about imagist poetry, can be found here on the Poetry Foundation page.
- Ezra Pound
- More Pound quotes
Friday, March 21, 2014
Pounding Advice
In a short essay in 1913, Ezra Pound made a list of
A Few 'Don’ts' For Writing Poetry.
Now with 50% less antisemitism.
ReplyDeleteYes, the guy was not merely an antisemite, he was an actual Fascist, with a capital F. One of his "don't" should have been "don't allow yourself to get seduced by conspiracy ravings of psychopaths with a drive for power."
ReplyDelete--1913 was before that, though. Back then he was still merely a poet.