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Ezra Pound

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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.


— Ezra Pound


#artists #called #craft #does #gods

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.


— Ezra Pound


#i #made #mistake #prejudice #stupid

Wars are made to make debt.


— Ezra Pound


#made #make #wars

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


— Ezra Pound


#between #bore #distinguish #find #ideas

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.


— Ezra Pound


#any #book #books #certain #contents

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.


— Ezra Pound


#begins #dance #departs #far #gets

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.


— Ezra Pound


#agree #always #business #them #two

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.


— Ezra Pound


#expression #genius #man #mode #right

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


— Ezra Pound


#guess #i #lunatic #man #surrounded

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.


— Ezra Pound


#bank #check #depends #drawn #general






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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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