Ezra Pound

Quotes

• “Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one...”
• “Speak against unconscious oppression,Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative,Speak against bonds.”
• “Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding.”
• “There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight”
• “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
• “With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.”
• “This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
• “All great art is born of the metropolis.”
• “Rhythm must have meaning.”