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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
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What thou lovest well remains.
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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