Chinese Quote by Richard Misrach

The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And the experience…

— Anne Waldman

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

— C. S. Lewis

“Em todos os cantos os soldados topavam com japoneses imobilizados por cordas, sendo brutalmente espancados”

— Anonymous

“Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following…

— Janet Spens

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that…

— Joseph Epstein

“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and transcendent stages…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”

— Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.

— Ash Sarkar

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would…

— Sally Mann

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

— Gertrude Stein

Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up with aren't…

— Elliott Colla

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our…

— Charles Bukowski

Every poet gets to choose what kind of community he or she serves with the poems, and it's true that there is a community…

— Ted Kooser

Early in his life Mr. [Ezra] Pound met with strong, continued, and unintelligent opposition. If people keep opposing you when you are right, you…

— Randall Jarrell

“The top eleven are, in order, T. S. Eliot’s “Prufrock,” Robert Lowell’s “Skunk Hour,” Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” William…

— Malcolm Gladwell