Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#news #stays

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#light #reading #read

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. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#ball #book #hand #intensely #light

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#poetry #pound #art

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#contents #deep #least #lived #man

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#death

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good ↗

— Ezra Pound

#courage #criticism #intellectuals #opinion #taboos

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

— Ezra Pound

#despair #difficulty #fear #optimism #poetry

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

— Ezra Pound

#artist #beginning #creation #discovery #art