Talk:Ezra Pound

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Introduction too short, birth/death dates non-standard, no distinction between sourced/attributed, no wp link ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:49, 5 December 2005 (UTC)

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• My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism, all along.
  • Quoted in Composed on the tongue, "Encounters will Ezra Pound" by Allen Ginsberg

• Nothing written for pay is worth printing. ONLY what has been written AGAINST the market.

• The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

• 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.

• The apparitions of these faces in the crowd;
  Petals on a wet, black bough.

• Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

• Where is what I loved?

why is that absurd ginsberg lie of a quote on here?

That's like a big fat guy having a healthy guy say his worst mistake was not being a big fat guy.

In this anti-fascist culture everything revolves around such issues. Poets who were admitted Marxists are treated very differently.