Ezra Pound Reading Quotations

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Literature is news that stays news.

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.