Quotes by Ezra Pound

"Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."
— Ezra Pound
"Literature is news that stays news."
— Ezra Pound
"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight"
— Ezra Pound
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Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Re...