“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.

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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

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