Money Wisdom #133

"The genius can pay in nugget and in lump gold; it is not necessary that he bring up his knowledge into the mint of consciousness, stamp it either into the coin of conscientiously analyzed form-detail knowledge or into the paper money of words before he transmit it."

Ezra Pound "Art Notes" The New Age (1919) p. 60–61 signed as B. H. Dias,

reprinted in Harriet Zinnes Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts (1980) p. 124