Literary and Philosophical Quotes -- Poets and Dreamers -- Ezra Pound
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Quotes by Ezra Pound 5
Ezra Pound, 1885-1972. American writer who exerted great influence on the development of modern literature through his poetic works, such as the unfinished Cantos (1925-1960), his critical works, including ABC of Reading (1934), his voluminous contributions to literary magazines, and his tutelage of writers such as T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, and Ernest Hemingway.
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Any general statement is like a cheque drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic- I mean my motion.
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
Modern civilization has bred a race with brains like those of rabbits and we who are the heirs of the witch-doctor and the voodoo. We artists who have been so long the despised are about to take over control.
Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.
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