Any general statement is like a check .. Ezra Pound

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

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Ezra Pound

Profession: Poet
Nationality: American

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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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