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Ezra Pound was an American poet, literary critic, and economist. Born on October 30, 1885, and passing away on November 1, 1972, he is regarded as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. Known for his work in the Imagist movement and his extensive contributions to literature, Pound played a pivotal role in shaping modern poetry.

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Famous Ezra Pound Quotes

“Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.”

Book Turns Historical Data Noses Tunes Collectives Companion Muse Weary

Book:New Selected Poems and Translations

Source: New Selected Poems and Translations

“The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.”

Book Lost Generations Perception Tradition Direct Permanent Dependent Faculty Receiving Flavor Mystic Peaches Book Learning Apricots

Author:Ezra Pound

“Literature is news that stays news.”

Book Inspiration Reading Literature News Pounds Best Literature

Author:Ezra Pound

“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”

Men Writing Book Reading Pounds Reading Books Book Reading Books And Reading

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“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.”

Men Should Book Hands Light Reading Power Alive Balls Literacy Power Man

Author:Ezra Pound

“There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”

Men Should Book Reason Change Library Eight Reason Why Forty No Reason Eighteen Forty Eight

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”

Author:Ezra Pound

“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”

Book Reading Forever Masters Deserve Lazy Good Book Chaucer

Author:Ezra Pound

“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”

Men May Book Hands Reading Keys One Day

Book:The Cantos of Ezra Pound

Source: The Cantos of Ezra Pound

“The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.”

Book Hands Light Reading Balls

Book:Guide to Kulchur

Source: Guide to Kulchur

“The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.”

Book Lost Generations Fruit Flavor Peaches Book Learning Apricots

Author:Ezra Pound

“We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.”

Ifs Needs Book Hands Care Age Pain Needed Garden Abundance Copies Reverence Persist Muse Conservation

Book:ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

“No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.”

Thinking Writing Years Book Real Shows Written Style Twenties Real Life Poetry Is Conventions Life Style Good Poetry

Book:Pavannes and Divisions

Source: Pavannes and Divisions

About the Author

Born: October 30, 1885
Died: November 1, 1972
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 232

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ABC of ReadingRelated source material

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The Selected Letters of Ezra Pound, 1907-1941Related source material

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