“Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind.”

— Marshall McLuhan

Letter to Ezra Pound (21 December 1948)
1940s

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Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar-- a professor … 1911–1980

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