Quotes by Pound, Ezra

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least pa >>

The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà >>

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

Quotations about Past

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but i >>

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working >>

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which hav >>

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Pound, Ezra