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
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – 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