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1885–1972 United States
Ezra Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early to mid-20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several Modernist movements including Imagism and Vorticism.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935)
The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Guide to Kulchur (1938)
If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.
Not one man in a thousand can be aroused to an interest in economics until he definitely suffers from the effects of an evil system.
ABC of Economics (1933)
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
ABC of Reading (1934)
Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust their great artists.
Instigations of Ezra Pound (1920)
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work.
A slave is one who waits for someone else to free him.
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
Circe’s this craft, the trim-coifed goddess.
But the beauty is not the madness
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
ABC of Reading (1934)
It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.
A Retrospect (1918)
"You damn sadist!" said mr. cummings,
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
ABC of Reading (1934)
Tching prayed on the mountain and
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