Ezra Pound Quotes and Quotations
Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists. 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. Literature is news that stays news. If Ford Madox Ford were placed stark naked in a room totally empty he would contrive to turn it into a mess. Utter originality is, of course, out of the question. Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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