Pound

Famous quotes containing the word pound:

“Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning ... I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)

“The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.”
—Ezra Pound (1885–1972)