Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – 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
Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. – Ezra Pound
When people in stadiums do the Wave, its the group-mind collective organism spontaneously organizing itself to express an emotion, pass time, and reflect the joy of seeing the rhythms of many as one, a visual rhyming or music in which everyone senses where the motion is going. – Jerry Saltz