Ezra Pound

“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”

“The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.”

“Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

“Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.”

“Rhythm must have meaning.”

“Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.”