Quotes by Pound, Ezra

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

Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT >>

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

Quotations about Scholars and Scholarship

People who use their erudition to write for a learned minority... don' >>

I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. >>

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like >>

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.

Pound, Ezra