More from Ezra Pound
- 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. 23The 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
More about reading
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
