Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – Ezra Pound
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it. – Ezra Pound