Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music. – 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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – 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