Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
Ezra PoundHumanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
Ezra PoundThe concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra PoundChrist can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.
Ezra PoundThe man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.
Ezra Pound