What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
More Ezra Pound Quotes
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Either move or be moved.
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