Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Ezra Pound Finance
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. 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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts. Ezra Pound
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. Ezra Pound
