Ezra Pound Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Literature is news that stays news.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Inspiration, Reading

  The ABC of Reading ch. 2 (1934)

• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

• 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.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Power

• There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight

  Ezra Pound

  Change, Book, Men

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.86, New Directions Publishing

• With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Men

  Ezra Pound (1970). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.447, New Directions Publishing

• This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Men

• The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Light

  Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

• The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Generations, Flavor

• Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Reading, Forever

• We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age when no book was duplicated until someone took the pains to copy it out by hand, is obviously no longer suited to ’the needs of society’, or to the conservation of learning. The weeder is supremely needed if the Garden of the Muses is to persist as a garden.

  Ezra Pound

  Pain, Book, Garden

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.17, New Directions Publishing

• No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.

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  Real, Book, Writing

  Ezra Pound (1918). “Pavannes and Divisions”

• Yet the companions of the Muses
  will keep their collective nose in my books
  And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Data, Historical

  Ezra Pound, Richard Sieburth (2010). “New Selected Poems and Translations”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

• The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.

  Ezra Pound

  Book, Perception, Receiving

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