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Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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See, they return ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.
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In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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small talk comes from small bones
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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