Quotes by Pound, Ezra

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost >>

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say >>

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

Quotations about Books - Reading

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pan >>

The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books >>

A good book is the best of friends, the same today and for ever. >>

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Pound, Ezra