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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/5808/">Quotes by <em>Pound, Ezra</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (October 30, 1885 November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate, poet, musician and critic who, along with T. S. Eliot, was a major figure of the modernist movement in early 20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several modernist movements, notably Imagism and Vorticism. The critic Hugh Kenner said on meeting Pound: "I suddenly knew that I was in the presence of the center of modernism." · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"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."

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"All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty."

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"In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries."

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"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding."

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"I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion."

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"'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!"

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"AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??"

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"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him."

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"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."

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