Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – 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
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary. – Ezra Pound