Ezra Pound: Book

Ezra Pound was American Imagist poet and critic. Explore interesting quotes on book.
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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.”

Ezra Pound

Guide to Kulchur (1938), p. 55
Variant: Man reading shd. be man intensely alive. The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

Books , Light , Reading

“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 ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

Books , Understanding , Reading

“It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.”

Ezra Pound

A Retrospect (1918)

Books , Justice