Ezra Pound

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

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

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values. ”

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

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. ”

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. ”

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting. ”