“The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.”
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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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“The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.”
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“I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.”
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“A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.”
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“I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.”
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“Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.”
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“The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.”
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“Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.”
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“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it...”
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“Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.”
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“Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.”
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“Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”
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“Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art.”
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“A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.”
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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.”
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“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
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