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Ezra Pound

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate US poet and critic who was a major figure in the early modernist movement. His contribution to poetry began with his development of Imagism, a movement derived from classical Chinese and Japanese poetry, stressing clarity, precision and economy of language.


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Quote Left If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. Quote Right
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Quote Left The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner. Quote Right
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Quote Left Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Quote Right
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Quote Left I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it;... Quote Right
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Quote Left 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. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things