Quotes by Pound, Ezra

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translation >>

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any w >>

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it ser >>

Quotations about Style

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead d >>

Style is a fraud. I always felt the Greeks were hiding behind their co >>

A style does not go out of style as long as it adapts itself to its pe >>

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

Pound, Ezra