Source: ABC of Reading
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Famous Ezra Pound Quotes
Source: Selected Prose 1909–1965
Source: Personae: The Shorter Poems (Revised Edition)
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry
“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: Ezra Pound's Poetry and Prose: 1920-1927, C522-C599a
“Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.”
Source: Pound/Joyce; the Letters of Ezra Pound to James Joyce: With Pound's Essays on Joyce
Source: Ezra Pound perspectives: essays in honor of his eightieth birthday
Source: Poems and Translations
Source: Ezra Pound's poetry and prose: contributions to periodicals
“The natural object is always the adequate symbol.”
Source: The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition
“Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
“Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.”
Source: Literary Essays of Ezra Pound
Source: ABC of Reading
Source: Pavannes and Divisions
Source: The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry: A Critical Edition