Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

“Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family—
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)