A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
Ezra PoundThe eyes of this dead lady speak to me For here was love, was not to be drowned out. And here desire, not to be kissed away. The eyes of this dead lady speak to me.
Ezra PoundI have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
Ezra PoundPoetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.
Ezra Pound