Ezra Pound Modernist Quotes & Sayings

My dream is to reform the legal system over the next 20 years. — David Eagleman

Consider, o consider the lowly mole. His small hands are sore and his snout bleedeth. — Margery Allingham

Find the beauty in everyone and everything, everyday!
Roxanne Catherine Mapp — Roxanne Catherine Mapp

When modernist poetry, or what not so long ago passed for modernist poetry, can reach the stage where the following piece by Mr. Ezra Pound is seriously offered as a poem, there is some justification for the plain reader and orthodox critic who shrinks from anything that may be labelled 'modernist' either in terms of condemnation or approbation ... Better he thinks, that ten authentic poets should be left for posterity to discover than one charlatan should be allowed to steal into the Temple of Fame. — Laura Riding

Let us try for once not to be right. — Tristan Tzara

In deep pain, the sacred voice must speak to survive. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is my first love. — Mandy Moore