Quotes by : Ezra Pound

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

Either move or be moved.

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.....

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no....

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Winter is icummen in,Lhude sing Goddamm,Raineth drop and staineth slopAnd how the wind doth ramm!Sing:....

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.....

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets....