Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
Ezra PoundNo teacher has ever failed from ignorance. That is empiric professional knowledge. Teachers fail because they cannot `handle the class.' Real education must ultimately be limited to men how INSIST on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra PoundThe artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
Ezra PoundPeople find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra Pound