Trevor > Trevor's Quotes

“Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.”
― Ezra Pound

“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
― Ezra Pound

“I have tried to write Paradise

Do not move
Let the wind speak
that is paradise.

Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.”
― Ezra Pound

“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
― Ezra Pound

“Relearn astonishment.”
― Elias Canetti

“All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”
― Elias Canetti

“I want to keep smashing myself until I am whole.”
― Elias Canetti, The Human Province

“You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.”
― Elias Canetti, Auto-da-Fé