Ezra Pound Quote

The tip's a good one, as for literature
It gives no man a sinecure.
And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece.
And give up verse, my boy,
There's nothing in it.


Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) 'Mr Nixon'


The tip's a good one, as for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's...

The tip's a good one, as for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's...

The tip's a good one, as for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's...

The tip's a good one, as for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's...