Ezra Pound

"True strength comes from within."

"The heart speaks louder than the mind."

"One must have the courage to change one's opinion when presented with new evidence."

"The greatest inventions come from necessity."

"Patience is the virtue of the strong."

"Kindness is the language that the deaf can hear and the blind can see."

"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."

"In solitude the soul learns to be at peace with itself."

"The natural object is always the adequate symbol."

"Make it new."

"Poetry must be as well written as prose."

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

"The book of life is palimpsest."

"I have tried to write Paradise, do not move. Let the wind speak that is the proper decoration."

"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."

"The test of literature is its power of association."

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

"One cannot make a language or even a poem without mythology."

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

"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient."

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

"I would rather sleep with Sappho and with Catullus than with the printed Swinburne."

"Every historical fact becomes mythological when it becomes exemplary."

"Culture is the habit of being pleased with excellence of all kinds."

"The power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"Wars are made to make debt."

"The hell of being out of touch with one's generation."

"Artists are the antennae of the race."

"News that stays news is the definition of literature."

"The beauty of verse is in its power to convey precise thought."