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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 Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. ... Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mea... Quote Right
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Quote Left Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. Quote Right
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Quote Left When our two dusts with Waller's shall be laid, Siftings on siftings in oblivion,... Quote Right
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Quote Left We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. Quote Right
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Quote Left In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries. Quote Right
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Book: Shattered Sighs