Ezra Pound (1885–1972) American Imagist poet and critic
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.
“We should read much, we should not read many books.”
Letter 9, 15.
Letters, Book VII
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