Ezra Pound Quotes

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

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

I always feel that life can teach you how to act. I'm always looking at life through other people's eyes. By feeling empathy. And I do feel that I am constantly learning.

The more life you live, the more you are able to understand the experiences of other people. It's one of the few benefits of getting older.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

Its not age as much as the experiences I have had.

As you mature, you start reading and studying and researching, you start to really know what life is about.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

You rehear your life by reading about what happens to other people.

The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

When I hear other people's stories, I like to believe that they contribute to my 'Encyclopedia of Human Experience.' The stories I hear help me expand my definition of what love is, what pain feels like, what sacrifice means, what laughter can do.

As I get older, I get smaller. I see other parts of the world I didn't see before. Other points of view. I see outside myself more.

I think by definition you need to have lived a little bit to write anything that's humanly true.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.

In addition to giving comfort and joy, art also has the miraculous ability to let us live in other men's skins, to test our perceptions and beliefs against theirs, and perhaps to be changed as a result. It does this by portraying the world creatively, heightening our perception and enriching our understanding of things as they are.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

Everything that happens later in life is appreciated in a different way. You can appreciate the thing for what it is, which you couldn't if you were 25 and had never experienced much else. You would take it all for granted and think that's what life is like.

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

Life is a massive amount of feelings with the occasional profound engagement with intellect. As I get older, I hope the intellect takes over.

The longer you live, the smarter you get because you've been around. You've seen things. You've gone through different emotional experiences in your own life, and hopefully, you understand things better. And that makes you a better actress.