A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers.… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Criticism is not a circumscription or a set of prohibitions. It provides fixed points of departure. It may startle a dull reader… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“Man reading ought to be a man intensely alive. The book ought to be a ball of light in his hands. ” — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“When you start searching for ‘pure elements’ in literature you will find that literature has been created by the following classes of… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in… — 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 Image
“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 Image
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
