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Ezra Pound Quotes

"Make it new.""The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy""The critic who doesn't make out a case is only an intelligent reader for himself; he is not a critic""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""There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight""Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding""If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays""A book should be a ball of light in one's hand.""Literature is news that stays news.""Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.""The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough."