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Ezra Pound Quotes

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
Ezra Pound

Biography

Author Profession: Poet
Nationality: American
Born: October 30, 1885
Died: November 1, 1972

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Either move or be moved.
Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
Ezra Pound

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound

It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Words

Atrophy, Begins, Dance, Departs, Far, Gets, Music, Poetry, Too

Definitions

Atrophy, Dance, Far, Music, Poetry, Too