Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
More Quotes from Ezra Pound:
There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.Ezra Pound
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.
Ezra Pound
Come, my songs, let us speak of perfection - We shall get ourselves rather disliked.
Ezra Pound
AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN
Ezra Pound
See, they return ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back.
Ezra Pound
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound
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