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Properly, we should read for power.

Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism . . . the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Don't be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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As for literature It gives no man a sinecure. And no one knows, at sight, a masterpiece. And give up verse, my boy, There's nothing in it.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time.
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