Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.

quote by Ezra Pound
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Epitaph

Leucis, who intended a Grand Passion,
Ends with a willingness-to-oblige.

poem by Ezra Pound
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

quote by Ezra Pound
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The New Cake Of Soap

Lo, how it gleams and glistens in the sun
Like the cheek of a Chesterton.

poem by Ezra Pound
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In A Station Of The Metro

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

poem by Ezra Pound
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In a Station of the Metro

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

poem by Ezra Pound from Poetry: A Magazine of Verse (1913)
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

quote by Ezra Pound
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A general loathing of a gang or sect usually has some sound basis in instinct.

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

classic quote by Ezra Pound
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

quote by Ezra Pound
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