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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
"Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds."
Tags: Empowerment, Freedom, Imagination, Activism, Oppression
"Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity."
Tags: Philosophy, Human nature, Existentialism, Simplicity, Human condition
"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."
Tags: Freedom, Independence, Self-reliance, Self-determination, Autonomy
"Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, spheres, and the like, but equations for the human emotions."
Tags: Creativity, Poetry, Emotional expression, Human emotions, Equations
"Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one."
Tags: Wisdom, Creativity, Perspective, Perception, Innovation
"Make it new."
Tags: Inspiration, Creativity, Innovation, Change, Transformation
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy"
Tags: Creativity, Perception, Art, Ideas, Energy
"The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic"
Tags: Critical thinking, Judgment, Interpretation, Criticism, Critique
"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"
Tags: Inspiration, Life, Knowledge, Power, Reading
"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight"
Tags: Personal growth, Reading habits
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding"
Tags: Personal growth, Philosophy, Learning, Knowledge, Education
"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays"
Tags: Literature, Civilization, National identity, Societal impact, Cultural decay
"A book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
Tags: Inspiration, Wisdom, Learning, Knowledge, Imagination
"Literature is news that stays news."
Tags: Communication, Literature, Art, Insight, Writing
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Tags: Communication, Literature, Expression, Art, Writing
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