When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
And the betrayers of language … n and the press gang And those who had lied for hire; The perverts, the perverters… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Yes, but bad language is bound to make in addition bad government, whereas good language is not bound to make bad government.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, "Mamma, can I open the light?" She was using the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
“Till now they send him dreams and no more deed; So doth he flame again with might for action, Forgetful of the council of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth. — Ezra Pound Copy Share
“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or… — Ezra Pound Copy Share
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know. — Ezra Pound Copy Share
