Ezra Pound

"Technique allows for intensity."

"Nothing matters except intensity, depth, and truth of feeling."

"Literature is the most concentrated form of humanity."

"A poem is a machine for producing the poetic effect."

"Nature is not something to be conquered but to be understood."

"The most important thing is to focus on what truly matters."

"Language is a poor medium for what human beings wish to communicate."

"Every age has its own form of truth."

"The artist works to be free."

"Time is the substance of which I am made."

"What separates greatness from the ordinary is persistence."

"The moment when great beauty appears is the moment of supreme truth."

"The mind of a man may be likened to a mirror."

"Science is but knowledge extended and systematized."

"To believe is to accept something as true without demanding absolute proof."

"The artist should not impose meaning but allow it to emerge."

"Every idea must have its form or it is not an idea at all."

"The human mind has a natural limit to what it can process."

"History repeats itself because we fail to learn from it."

"The path to enlightenment requires patience and discipline."

"A single man's gesture can echo through eternity."

"The strongest among us are often the quietest."

"Kindness is an act of courage disguised as simplicity."

"Fear is the absence of knowledge."

"The imagination is more powerful than the bomb."

"To create is to engage in the highest human activity."

"The pursuit of knowledge requires the surrender of certainty."

"Gratitude is the gateway to abundance."

"The dead cannot be made alive by the same mistakes that killed them."

"Nature teaches us that patience is the greatest virtue."