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«Men do not understand books until they have 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.»
«The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.»
Author: Ezra Pound (Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator) | Keywords: modern
«What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it»
Author: Ezra Pound (Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator) | About: Ideas
«Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.»
«Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.»
«Men do not understand books until they have had a certain amount of life, until they have seen and lived at least part of their contents»
Author: Ezra Pound (Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator) | Keywords: contents
«Utter originality is, of course, out of the question»
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
«'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.»
«There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.»

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