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Ezra Pound

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an expatriate American poet and critic, and a major figure in the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. His best-known works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) and the unfinished 120-section epic, The Cantos (1917–69).

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Either move or be moved.

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interfe ...

And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like ...

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

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b ...

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that ...

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are the ...

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a she ...

It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write ...

America is a lunatic asylum.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, ...

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triang ...

You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dullin ...

Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historica ...