Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“Go, my songs, to the lonely and the unsatisfied,
Go also to the nerve-racked, go to the enslaved-by-convention,
Bear to them my contempt for their oppressors.”
—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)