Ezra Pound

"The fundamental principles of civilization are that they are human."

"What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage."

"I have been a Stoic but Stoicism is a form of slavery in the last analysis."

"Wars come from the desire to make a great man greater and a little man bigger."

"The book for the leisure time of the educated is the principal thing."

"Wrong focus will mean futile effort."

"The individual cannot abandon his effort to understand things for himself."

"All things are made of atoms."

"Confucius said nothing of the mysteries, of miracles, of the way of heaven."

"Intelligence is the sense of proportion."

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due only to one-ninth of it being above water."

"One cannot discuss civilization without admitting that it is founded on beauty."

"All of life flows from form."

"The reward of high achievement in poetry is other men's understanding."

"No one has yet written a perfectly honest autobiography."

"Money is the root of all evil, and yet money is the root of all growth."

"A war fought for the poetry of it is nobler than any other war."

"We must choose, and we must choose wisely."

"The poet should seize the particular instant out of which no detail of direct impression can be left out."

"Light does not fall but radiates."

"The artist's true function is to play the instrument of existence."

"Rhythm alone is not genius."

"The image is always the primary fact."

"To know the past is to free oneself from it."

"Words have meanings and names mean things."

"Beauty is the promise of something beyond human understanding."

"The supreme reward of poetry is the joy in the absolute conception of the beautiful."

"Truth is like iron; it cannot be bent and it cannot be broken."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas simultaneously."