Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men know more and think more they look less at individuals and more at classes. They therefore make better theories and worse poems. – Thomas Babington Macaulay