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Ezra Pound1885–1972

Ezra Pound on poetry

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)

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Literature is news that STAYS news.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Jefferson and/or Mussolini (1935), Ch. 23
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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.
Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
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Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Robert Frost1874–1963
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
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Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible.
C. S. Lewis1898–1963Reflections on the Psalms

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