Ezra Pound

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"I could spend the rest of my life reading just to acquire the history that is already in existence."

"An image is that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time."

"The truth is always too new for people."

"The individual cannot exist alone, he must be a cell of the body politic."

"Poetry must interest the man in the street."

"The form of the state is determined by the quality of the people."

"One demands the right to invent new forms."

"Technique is the test of sincerity."

"The worth of a state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it."

"I have come to the borders of sleep, the unfathomable abyss."

"The meaning of life is to see the world before you dies."

"Your mind has become a workshop of thought."

"All motion is relative and we perceive by the flux."

"Nothing is any better until somebody wants to improve it."

"The debt that is owing the dead is a matter of great moment."

"The classics are only primitive literature."

"A translation is not an explanation."

"Prosody is the articulation of the total sound of a poem."

"The only way out is forward."

"Think for yourself."

"The artist works with symbols."

"Every period in human history has been a period of decay."

"The intelligence of the writer is as much exposed in his silences as in his speech."

"The poet must have eyes to see and ears to hear."

"What you can't see is just as real as what you can."

"The function of literature is to be a mirror of the human soul."

"The true educator must have courage and honesty."

"I have always been quite a cosmopolitan."

"The meaning of form is the meaning of its tradition."