Ezra Pound Quotes

Biography: Ezra Pound is known for being a pioneering modernist poet and influent... more Biography: Ezra Pound is known for being a pioneering modernist poet and influential literary figure. Born in 1885 in Idaho, Pound played a crucial role in developing the early 20th-century poetry movements, including Imagism and Vorticism. His work and mentorship profoundly impacted contemporaries like T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. less

"Make it new.""The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy""The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic""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""There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight""Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding""If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays""A book should be a ball of light in one's hand.""Literature is news that stays news.""Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.""The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough."

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