Quotes by Pound, Ezra

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorou >>

There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for >>

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

Quotations about Ideas

A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as triv >>

If you want to kill any idea in the world today, get a committee worki >>

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you only have one. >>

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Pound, Ezra