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Ezra Pound Quotes


An American expatriate poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry.
Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American expatriate poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement in poetry. He became known for his role in developing Imagism, which, in reaction to the Victorian and Georgian poets, favored tight language, unadorned imagery, and a strong correspondence between the verbal and musical qualities of the verse and the mood it expressed. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos, which consumed his middle and late career, and was published between 1917 and 1969.

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Literature is news that stays news.

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Utter originality is of course out of the question.

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

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

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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Artists are the antennae of the race but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

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If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess.

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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.