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Ezra Pound

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Literature is news that stays news.


— Ezra Pound


#news #stays

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.


— Ezra Pound


#light #reading #read

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.


— Ezra Pound


#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.


— Ezra Pound


#poetry #pound #art

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


— Ezra Pound


#contents #deep #least #lived #man

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


— Ezra Pound


#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.


— Ezra Pound


#death

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good


— Ezra Pound


#courage #criticism #intellectuals #opinion #taboos

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.


— Ezra Pound


#despair #difficulty #fear #optimism #poetry

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.


— Ezra Pound


#artist #beginning #creation #discovery #art






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Did you know about Ezra Pound?

Pound was clever independent-minded conceited and unpopular. Reception
Opinion varies about the nature of Pound's writing style. The Malatesta Cantos (Cantos VIII IX X and XI of a Long Poem) appeared in The Criterion in July 1923 and two further cantos were publiEzra Poundd in the transatlantic review in January 1924.

He introduces them to wealthy women. He was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. His political views ensure that his work remains controversial; in 1933 Time magazine called him "a cat that walks by himself tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children.

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