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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Charged Degree Great Great Literature Language Literature Meaning Possible Simply Utmost

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Capacity Genius Man Ordinary Ordinary Man See Sees Ten Things Where

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Either move or be moved.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Either Move Moved

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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Against Been Market Nothing Only Pay Printing Worth Written

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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 poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: After Beautiful Beautiful City City Cut Down Far Flame Here Like Most Most Beautiful New New York Night Our Poetry Pulled Set Squares Stars Up Urban Will World York

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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Centuries Curse Earlier Illiteracy In Print Inability Just Monetary Our Our Time Plain Print Read Time

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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.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Amount Any Book Books Certain Contents Deep He Least Life Lived Man Men Part Rate Seen Understand Understands Until

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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Anyone Damn Known Never Who Worth

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Art Barber Dummy Poetry Real Sculpture Wax

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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

~Ezra Pound

Topics: Education Insist Knowing Limited Men Mere Must Real Rest Ultimately Who

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 30th, 1885

Died: November 1st, 1972

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