Ezra Pound1885–1972- ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 2 (p. 29 in the 1961 paperback)
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Ch. 23- Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.In a Station of the Metro, Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (April 1913)In context- New Age, March 30, 1922. As quoted in Impact: Essays on Ignorance and the Decline of American Civilization edited by Noel Stock, 1960
