I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
Ezra PoundThe act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Ezra PoundUSURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeonโs knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
Ezra PoundThe intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound