“Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.”

—  Ezra Pound, book ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading (1934), Ch. 8

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American Imagist poet and critic 1885–1972

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