The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound
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
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound