Ezra Pound at William Carlos Williams' house in 1958 by Richard Avedon
Either move or be moved.
-Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, 1945 mug shot
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
-Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound, Easter 1971, Burano, Italy by Franz Larese
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
-Ezra Pound
Beautiful. His words, as well as the portraiture! I am moved.
[…] friend sent me a photo of Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon. It was exquisite. The poet and the photographer, both. Was looking for more photos of Pound […]
A mad, brilliant, and certainly tormented soul. was he a fascist ? In many ways, yes. but he was mad man in an even more mad and violent world.