I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.
Ezra PoundQuiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.
Ezra PoundTechnique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound