Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
Ezra PoundArtists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
Ezra PoundNo good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and clichรฉ, not from real life.
Ezra PoundThe Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
Ezra PoundPeople find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
Ezra PoundThe flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.
Ezra Pound