Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

"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."
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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."
Ezra Pound
"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight"
Ezra Pound
"Literature is news that stays news."
Ezra Pound ABC of Reading
"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Ezra Pound
"Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds."
Ezra Pound
"โ€œSpeak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.โ€"
Ezra Pound
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding."
Ezra Pound
"With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands."
Ezra Pound
"When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
Ezra Pound
"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
Ezra Pound
"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."
Ezra Pound
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
Ezra Pound
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
Ezra Pound
"Either move or be moved."
Ezra Pound
"All great art is born of the metropolis."
Ezra Pound
"If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates."
Ezra Pound
"Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
Ezra Pound
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
Ezra Pound
"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Ezra Pound
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
Ezra Pound
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