Quotes by Pound, Ezra

It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indicatio >>

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depen >>

One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individ >>

Quotations about Literature

There was a time when the average reader read a novel simply for the m >>

For whatever is truly wondrous and fearful in man, never yet was put i >>

The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers >>

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Pound, Ezra