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Letter "E" » Ezra Pound Quotes
«It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
clot, genital, hypothesis, in suspense, presenter, presenters, reserved, suspense
«I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
| Keywords:
antecedent, antecedents, clear up, preliminary, sometime
«A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.»
«Literature is news that stays news.»
«Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel»
«People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.»
«When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.»
«The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.»
«Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that The rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.»
«Secrets of the Federal Reserve.»
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