“ Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound
“ If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good Ezra Pound
“ Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. Ezra Pound
“ There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight Ezra Pound
“ Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. Ezra Pound
“ It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound
“ Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. Ezra Pound
“ The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity. Ezra Pound
“ The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound
“ 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 establi… Ezra Pound
“ If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess. Ezra Pound
“ The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. Ezra Pound
“ Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds. Ezra Pound
