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Ezra Pound
(1885 - 1972 / Hailey / Idaho)
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80 poems of Ezra Pound
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a time. You never get clarity as long as you have these packaged words, as long as a word is us...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).
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I am writing to resist the view that Europe and civilization are going to Hell. If I am being "crucified for an idea"Mthat is, the coherent idea around which my muddles accumulated—it is probably...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).
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''There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).
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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establi...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Interview in Writers at Work, Second Series, ed. George Plimpton (1963).
Pound was obliquely referring ...
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Genius ... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and where the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of hi...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Jefferson and/or Mussolini, Liveright (1935).
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''There is no topic ... more soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. New Age (London, Jan. 8, 1920).
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''It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. New Age (London, November 14, 1912).
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''A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. New English Weekly (London, May 14, 1936).
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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 poet...
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. "Patria Mia," New Age (London, Sept. 18, 1912).
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''Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.''
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Ezra Pound (1885-1972), U.S. poet, critic. Poetry (Chicago, October 1914).
Pound was fulminating against the motto on Poetry's cover, that, "To ha...
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