Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.

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Literature is news that stays news.

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There is no reason why the same man should like the same book at 18 and at 48.

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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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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.

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The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

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