Ezra Pound Quotes

I love silence.

I'm very introspective, and I mostly don't talk to people. I get into a real quiet, meditative place.

The wisdom of silence is a great asset.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

I wonder about silence. Also about darkness. I love the idea that city lights are a "conspiracy" against higher thoughts.

We must relearn to be alone.

The word must be heard in silence; there must be darkness to see the stars.

I named this place Listening Point because only when one comes to listen, only when one is aware and still, can things be seen and heard. Everyone has a listening point somewhere. It does not have to be in the north or close to the wilderness, but someplace of quiet where the universe can be contemplated with awe.

May my silences become more accurate.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

In these silences something may rise

In many other cultures, and certainly in the Eastern world, there's great value put on being, contemplating, and even withdrawing from the world at certain times or for certain periods of time. But we don't really have that in our culture, so it's difficult for many Westerners to learn how to sit down or lie down and just be quiet without going to sleep. We're just not trained to do it.

An observer can't tell if a person is silent and still because inner life has stalled or because inner life is transfixingly busy.

To lose one's self in reverie, one must be either very happy, or very unhappy. Reverie is the child of extremes.

I have a real problem with stillness. With just stopping and being quiet.

Silence is so accurate.

I aspire only to silence.

The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.

'The Machinist' changed me. I learned that I really enjoy, literally, not saying a damned word for days at a time, except for what was in the scene. Whole days of... nothing. Just... standing still. I know a lot of people found it bizarre, because they'd be standing right next to me thinking, 'Why aren't we talking? What's going on?'

In fact at home I sometimes like to be quiet and hear the sounds of the world outside.

I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.