Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. – Ezra Pound
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. – Ezra Pound
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – 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