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Ezra Pound

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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and The Cantos (c. 1915–1962).

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Quotes from Ezra Pound

The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

—Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.

—Ezra Pound

If love be not in the house, there is nothing.

—Ezra Pound

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.

—Ezra Pound

Either move or be moved.

—Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.

—Ezra Pound