American - Poet | October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972
Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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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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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
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