Quotes by Pound, Ezra

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

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the po >>

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible. >>

Quotations about Books - Classics

The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a mea >>

Every man with a bellyful of the classics is an enemy to the human rac >>

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rul >>

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

Pound, Ezra