“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”

“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”

“The critic who doesn't make a personal statement, in remeasurements he himself has made, is merely an unreliable critic. He is not a measurer but a repeater of other men's results. KRINO, to pick out for oneself, to choose. That's what the word means.”

“When the head of state of family thinks first of gouging out an income, he must perforce do it through small men; and even if they are clever at their job, if one employ such inferior characters in state and family business the tilled fields will go rack swamp and ruin and edged calamities will mount up to the full.... This is the meaning of: A state does not profit by profits - Pound's translation of Confucius”

“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”

“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.(excerpt from 'The Garrett')”

“The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.”