Quotes by : Ezra Pound

Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball....

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the....

I wonder why the wind, even the wind doth seemTo mock me now, all night, all night, andHave I strayed....

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being....

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball....

Two mystic states can be dissociated: the ecstatic-beneficent-and-benevolent, contemplation of the divine....

Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Literature is language charged with meaning

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.....