Ezra Pound Quotes

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to realize how much it means to you.

We tend to take a great deal for granted, because you feel like you're going to live forever. It's only if you lose a friend, or maybe have a near-death experience, [that] many events and people in your life suddenly attain real significance.

The only way to have eternal love is to never let your heart forget what it’s like to live without it.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

If you ever forget how much you really mean to me, Every day I will remind you

With endless time, nothing is special. With no loss or sacrifice, we can’t appreciate what we have

Betty inhales sharply, 'It's just I thought I had lost you forever.' Oh, Betty, don't you know there's no such thing as forever?

Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth.

Something that is yours forever is never precious

You will lose what you value most, so treasure it while you can.

Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)

If some one loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself, "My flower's up there somewhere. . . ." But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?

Last forever!' Who hasn't prayed that prayer? You were lucky to get it in the first place. The present is a freely given canvas. That it is constantly being ripped apart and washed downstream goes without saying.

Well you only need the light when it's burning low, only miss the sun when it starts to snow.

what is lost because it is most precious what is most precious because it is lost

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.

I may be older and wiser, I may have lived another life since then, but I know that when my time eventually comes, the memories of that day will be the final images that float through my mind. I still love her, you see, and I‟ve never removed my ring. In all these years I‟ve never felt the desire to do so.

She nods. You're good for the ones you love. You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.

There are things I miss," you said. "But if I didn't have you, I'd miss more.

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

Every field and flower fades, but love is infinite.

But true love is a durable fire, In the mind ever burning, Never sick, never old, never dead, From itself never turning.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.