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Ezra Pound Quotes

Biography: Ezra Pound is known for being a pioneering modernist poet and influent... more Biography: Ezra Pound is known for being a pioneering modernist poet and influential literary figure. Born in 1885 in Idaho, Pound played a crucial role in developing the early 20th-century poetry movements, including Imagism and Vorticism. His work and mentorship profoundly impacted contemporaries like T.S. Eliot and James Joyce. less

"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irrevocably cynical."

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"The act of being an artist is not easy and self-discipline is necessary."

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"And the days are not full enough and the nights are not full enough and life slips by like a field mouse."

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"Good writers are those who keep the language efficient."

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"A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules or fits certain definitions."

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"One measure of genius is the ability to see alternatives."

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

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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."

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"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing. Yes, I think it was the happiest day of my life."

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"As a poet, I should like to say that my only argument is with those who do not interest me, and that I can have no quarrel with those who do."

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"Poetry is a centaur. The thinking, word-arranging, clarifying faculty must move and leap with the energizing, sentient, musical faculties."

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

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"The worst mistake you can make is the one you do not learn from."

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"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

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"The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth."

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