331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

Great minds have sought you--lacking someone else.You have been second always. Tragical?No. You preferred it to the usual thing

Till now they send him dreams and no more deed;So doth he flame again with might for action,Forgetful of the council of the elders,Forgetful that who rules doth no more battle,Forgetful that such might no more cleaves to himSo doth he flame again toward valiant doing.

O woman shapely as a swan,Your gunmen tread on my dreams

2 young ladies to sing us the new liberty songreadiness to be shot / versus / taxes

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

The hells move in cycles,No man can see his own end.The Gods have not returned. "They have never left us."They have not returned.

Why do you look so eagerly and so curiously into people’s faces, / Will you find your lost dead among them?

And if you ask how I regret that parting?It is like the flowers falling at spring’s end,confused, whirled in a tangle.What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking—There is no end of things in the heart.

As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valleyShe lay beside me in the dawn.