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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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Anyone can run to excesses,
The blossoms of the apricot
Image…that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello."
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
ABC of Reading (1934)
Literature is news that STAYS news.
ABC of Reading (1934)
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
Guide to Kulchur (1938)
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
All other sins are open,
And of man seeking good,
And for one beautiful day there was peace.
But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
Guide to Kulchur (1938)
"A pity that poets have used symbol and metaphor and no man learned anything from them for their speaking in figures"
Without character you will
Pride, jealousy and possessiveness
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
A Serious Character (1988)
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.
ABC of Reading (1934)
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