in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Quotes by Ezra Pound (Ezra Weston Loomis Pound)
You can find this author also in Poems.
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
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There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.
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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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