Ezra Pound

"The imagination does not grow by restriction."

"Courage is the small boy who turns the light off and gets to bed before the room goes dark."

"Only emotion endures."

"Beauty is no quality in things themselves; it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them."

"One cannot discriminate without knowledge."

"The test of literature is whether it can be read with pleasure."

"I believe in the individual."

"All great works of art have a quality that transcends the moment."

"Time cannot take what it did not give."

"The best advice is not always the simplest."

"What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the degree of intensity at which he holds it."

"Good art never needs explanation."

"The world is a stage and men and women merely players."

"I have tried to write Paradise into a shape where I can see all of it at once."

"The most subtle battles are often the ones with the fewest witnesses."

"To know a thing one must know its limits."

"A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover the two or three great images."

"Nature is not fixed; it is alive and changing."

"The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say and a wise man knows whether or not to say it."

"All work and no play makes Jack an unhappy companion."

"To be master of any branch of knowledge, one must know that branch alone."

"In art, as in life, the hardest things to achieve are simplicity and clarity."

"The mind is a mirror; it reflects what it is fed."

"Friendship is a two-way street."

"The future is built on the past."

"Fear is a sign of weakness that must be overcome."

"Success is the ability to persist through failure."

"The power of the written word is immeasurable."

"A man who has not travelled cannot fully understand his own country."

"The root of joy is gratefulness."