Ezra Pound Quotes


America is a lunatic asylum.


Context

Pound was not only an admirer of Mussolini and Fascism, but actually was a traitor and became a propagandist for the Axis in WWII. At his treason trial after the war, he had a breakdown and was committed to a mental hospital as he was not fit to stand trial. He was hospitalized for 12 years.


Citations

Ezra Pound, 1884-1972, Poet, Statement upon being released from St. Elisabeth’s Mental Hospital.

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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
  • Born: October 30, 1885
  • Died: November 1, 1972
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).