Selected Prose 1909–1965 Quotes

“There is something so degrading - at least, one would think that there were something so degrading in the practice of writing as a trade - that anyone who has once earned a livelihood, or part of it, obviously and openly, by popular writing, can never be seriously regarded by any great number of people. And then, of course, "he does too much.”
― Ezra Pound, Selected Prose 1909–1965

“The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.”
― Ezra Pound, Selected Prose 1909–1965