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Ezra Pound

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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.


— Ezra Pound


#architecture

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.


— Ezra Pound


#inspirational

Literature is news which stays news.


— Ezra Pound


#poetry #literary-criticism

L'art Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.


— Ezra Pound


#art

A great spirit has been amongst us, and a great artist is gone.


— Ezra Pound


#ezra-pound #henri-gaudier-brzeska #art

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.


— Ezra Pound


#before #come #curiosity #end #i

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.


— Ezra Pound


#grows #humanity #manure #rich #soil

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.


— Ezra Pound


#genius #man #ordinary #ordinary man #see

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


— Ezra Pound


#guess #i #lunatic #man #surrounded

All great art is born of the metropolis.


— Ezra Pound


#born #great #great art #metropolis






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Pound was clever independent-minded conceited and unpopular. Reception
Opinion varies about the nature of Pound's writing style. The Malatesta Cantos (Cantos VIII IX X and XI of a Long Poem) appeared in The Criterion in July 1923 and two further cantos were publiEzra Poundd in the transatlantic review in January 1924.

He introduces them to wealthy women. He was responsible for the publication in 1915 of Eliot's "The Love Song of J. His political views ensure that his work remains controversial; in 1933 Time magazine called him "a cat that walks by himself tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children.

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