Quote #8
Literature is news that STAYS news.
More from Ezra Pound
- 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…
- Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
- The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
- 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 …
- 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.
- AT ABOUT THIS POINT the weak-hearted reader usually sits down in the road, removes his shoes and weeps that he 'is a bad linguist' or that …
- Make it new!
- Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.