Ezra Pound

"Adventure is the spirit of civilization."

"Dreams are the blueprints of the soul."

"The greatest freedom is the freedom to think."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the mastery of it."

"Love is the only force that can truly transcend death."

"The measure of a person is what they do with what they have been given."

"Hope is not blind; it sees clearly and chooses to move forward anyway."

"Change is the only law that does not change."

"The purpose of education is to awaken the spirit."

"Beauty fades but truth endures."

"The ultimate currency is wisdom."

"The natural object is always the adequate symbol."

"Literature is news that stays news."

"Make it new."

"The poet is a light and winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses."

"To know the character of a man, observe how he treats those who can be of no possible service to him."

"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."

"I have never been one to cry over spilt milk, but I have always been one to prevent the spilling."

"The worst mistake is to imagine one understands money."

"A man's paradise is his good nature."

"Even the finest of poets must yield to the demands of practical life."

"The individual cannot exist alone; he is part of something larger."

"Art very often pretendes to elevate, when it actually degrades."

"I would rather lay in the mud than be a social butterfly."

"The test of literature is its power to think for us."

"Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life."

"The more there is multiplied in writing, the more there must be of concentration."

"A man's life is important not because it is long, but because he participates in something eternal."

"Beauty is the only spiritual thing in the world, and the highest form of beauty is truth."

"Language is the soul of intellect."