ABC of Reading
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“And the red sun mocks my sadness.”
Source: Collected Works of Richard of St. Victor
“The glory of any nation is to produce art that can be exported without disgrace to its origin.”
Source: Lettere 1907 - 1958.
Source: Personæ: The Shorter Poems
“Beauty is a brief gasp between one cliché and another.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: Cathay
“As cool as the pale wet leaves of lily-of-the-valley She lay beside me in the dawn.”
“Hate is not born in the trenches nor among 2nd. lieutenants.”
Source: The Cantos
“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
Source: Selected Prose 1909–1965
Source: The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941
“Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
Source: A Walking Tour in Southern France: Ezra Pound Among the Troubadours
“Liberty is not a right but a duty.”
Source: Pound/Zukofsky: Selected Letters of Ezra Pound and Louis Zukofsky
“The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.”
Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts
Source: New Selected Poems and Translations
Source: Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)
“Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry”
Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)
Source: New Selected Poems and Translations
Source: New Selected Poems and Translations
“What counts is the cultural level”
Source: The Cantos of Ezra Pound
Source: Delphi Poetical Works of Ezra Pound (Illustrated)
Source: ABC of Reading
“It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Source: Impact: essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization
“Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.”