Ezra's wisdom

Objectivity and again objectivity, and expression: no hindside-before-ness, no straddled adjectives (as "addled mosses dank"), no Tennysonianness of speech; nothing-nothing that you couldn't, in some circumstance, in the stress of some emotion, actually say.
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Source: Letter to Harriet Monroe, January 1915

Literature is news that stays news.
Ezra Pound (1885 - 1972)
Source: ABC of Reading, 1934, ch. 2