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
I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – 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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound