Quote #6
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
More from Ezra Pound
- But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
- The author's conviction on this day of the New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry beg…
- Make it new!
- Literature is news that STAYS news.
- Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one 'Sordello.'
- Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
- Poetry must be as well written as prose.
- The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and …