Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

    The age demanded and image
    Of its accelerated grimace,
    —Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

    There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle “promise” from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.
    —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)