Common Reader Quotes by Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound has 179 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The artist is the antenna of the race.
• The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
• Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.
• America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
• A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
• Literature is news that stays news.
• No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
• Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers.…

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