“Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American expatriate poet, critic and intellectual who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in the first half of the 20th century. He is generally considered the poet most responsible for defining and promoting a modernist aesthetic in poetry.[1] The critic Hugh Kenner said of Pound upon meeting him: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism."[2] Source and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Pound
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“Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.”
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“Properly we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
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“Literature is news that stays news.”
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“No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
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“PARACELSUS IN EXCELSIS Being no longer human, why should I Pretend humanity or don the frail attire? Men have I known and men, but never one Was grown so free an essence, or become So simply...”
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“Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.”
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“Rhythm must have meaning.”
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“The Garden En robe de parade. - Samain Like a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-meal of a sort of emot...”
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“It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.”
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“And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.”
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“L'art Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.”
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“Make-strong old dreams lest this our world lose heart”
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“And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with assoc...”
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“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear. It doesn't matter whether the good writer wants to be useful, or whether the good wri...”
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“This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
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“The individual cannot think and communicate his thought, the governor and legislator cannot act effectively or frame his laws without words, and the solidity and validity of these words is i...”
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“With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
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“Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
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“Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
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“Literature is news that stays news.”
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