331 Quotes by Ezra Pound

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

Sumer is icumen in, Lhude sing cucc. Groweth sed, and bloweth med, And springth the wude nu, Sing cuccu!

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.