Ezra Pound

"Make it new."

"The natural object is always the adequate symbol."

"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics."

"A poet is a light and winged and holy thing."

"Literature is news that STAYS news."

"Knowledge is power."

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to prevent one's work from being suppressed, but anything further is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny."

"The book is the only medium left that hasn't been corrupted by advertising."

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance."

"If a man has not found something he will die for, he is not fit to live."

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

"The purpose of education is not to fill the pupil with all manner of knowledge, but to give him the keys wherewith to open any door."

"I create beauty, I do not invent it."

"The glory of the world passes away."

"No man ever understands quite his own artful attempts to feint out of the original sin."

"All values ultimately come down to life and the relative vivacity of life."

"Art very often preaches, and the artist ought to be able to do so."

"The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language."

"True ease in writing comes from art, not chance."

"In the end, the nail that sticks up gets hammered down."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."

"I do not know if I have written anything good, but I have tried to make the best of it."

"The moment one learns English, complications set in."

"Human beings are born with different capacities."

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas."

"I would rather be responsible for the laws and punishments than for the praise."

"As the grass about it knows the goodness of the rain, so should all men."

"Education by poetry is education by ideas."

"Ideation is the gourmet's return to action."