Ezra Pound

"The artist's struggle is the struggle of all men."

"To break the pentameter, that was the first heave."

"Hell is the hell of making the same mistakes again and again."

"The lyric basis of all poetry is the self."

"Money is nothing if it does not make you free."

"A society in which consuming has become the main form of happiness is not a happy society."

"Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action."

"The worst mistake is to imagine that you can think about play without thinking about work."

"I could write the history of the literature of this century in terms of the publishers who refused my manuscripts."

"The supreme test of a poem is that it change nothing and everything."

"Individual sensibility is something good."

"It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

"War is the health of the state."

"Beauty is the promise of happiness."

"The young men of my generation are obsessed with the idea of death."

"Every man worthy of the name has a natural right to justice."

"A language is a habit and habits are hard to break."

"I am filled with the simple animal happiness of having warm food and a full belly."

"The wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water molds itself to the pitcher."

"The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled but to settle things strange."

"Only the human heart can balance the sentimental with the practical."

"Art is the effort of man to express his conception of nature."

"One cannot know a country if one does not know its literature."

"Immobility is also a form of motion."

"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."

"Language is not a code; language is a living thing."

"There is nothing just in believing what one is told."

"The age of the individual is just beginning."

"Great facts are new and strange to every generation."

"A writer's fundamental job is to understand the human heart."