Ezra Pound Quotes

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.

Great poets seldom make bricks without straw. They pile up all the excellences they can beg, borrow, or steal from their predecessors and contemporaries and then set their own inimitable light atop the mountain.

The true poet is most easily distinguished from the false when he trusts himself to the simplest expression and writes without adjectives.

The great writer is always the plodder.

Some poems have form as a tree has form and some as water poured into a vase.