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Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

American poet

Lived from: 1885 - 1972

Category: Media | Poets (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 30 october 1885 Died: 1 november 1972

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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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  • One measure of a civilization, either of an age or of a single individual, is what that age or person really wishes to do. A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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  • People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
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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.
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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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  • Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.
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  • Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
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  • The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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  • The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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  • The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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  • The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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  • The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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  • The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
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  • The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
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  • The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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  • The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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  • There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
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  • Wars are made to make debt.
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  • With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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  • You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
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