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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 But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY. Quote Right
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Quote Left Duccio came not by usura nor Pier della Francesca; Zuan Bellin' not by usura... 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 mea... Quote Right
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Quote Left Poetry withers and dries out when it leaves music, or at least imagined music, too far behind it. Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets. Quote Right
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Quote Left Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it. Quote Right
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Book: Reflection on the Important Things