Ezra Pound on genius

Literature is news that STAYS news.

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.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.

Not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius.

Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack

• Education

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Thomas Edison1847–1931