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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[edit]- 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?
[edit]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.
Source? Apocryphal?
[edit]"The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth."
This one appears on the internet frequently. Does anyone know if it's real, and if so, where it originates? BeatrixGodard (talk) 03:53, 5 September 2025 (UTC)