There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUNDThere is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
EZRA POUNDRhythm is form cut into time.
EZRA POUNDMan is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
EZRA POUNDPay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
EZRA POUNDReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
EZRA POUNDWhat matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
EZRA POUNDA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUNDIf a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
EZRA POUNDHumanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
EZRA POUNDA classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
EZRA POUNDUse no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
EZRA POUNDFrom the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
EZRA POUNDAny general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
EZRA POUNDAnyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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