Quotes by Pound, Ezra

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of t >>

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the >>

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-S >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! m >>

It is difficult to accept death in this society because it is unfamili >>

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a >>

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Pound, Ezra