Great saying by great authors Quote by Ezra Pound

“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

“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

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

— Ezra Pound

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

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

— Ezra Pound

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

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

where the dead walked and the living were made of cardboard.

— Ezra Pound

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

— Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

— Ezra Pound

“Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.”

— Ezra Pound

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