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lumin_vulpes: In 1933, Time magazine called Ezra Pound 'a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children'
LubbockHub: There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight. – Ezra Pound
DanRattelle: Ezra Pound
RBrookhiser: Ezra Pound agreed. Arriba Adams (some Canto, I forget which number).
ipeb_: wait til the people complaining about cancel culture in academia find out that they’re still teaching Ezra Pound in every college poetry class
azraelsv_: and ezra pound and t.s. elliot fighting in the captain's tower
h_romoff: « You cannot learn to write by reading English. » — Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading, 1934.
alltherowbots: Ezra Pound sat upon my bed
Asked me which books as of late I've read
Asked me if I've, uh, read his own
And whether I could spare a pound
Of flesh to cover his bare bones
Virotechnics: “The sceptical age hungers after the definite, after something it can pretend to believe.”
—Ezra Pound, The Spirit of Romance
HassamBalochh: Reflection
I know that what Nietzsche said is true,
And yet
I saw the face of a little child in the street,
And it was beautiful.
Ezra Pound
box_spiral: Ezra Pound & TS Eliot
mymtaal: "The dogs leap on Actæon,
“Hither, hither, Actæon,”
Spotted stag of the wood;
Gold, gold, a sheaf of hair,
Thick like a wheat swath,
Blaze, blaze in the sun,
The dogs leap on Actæon."
-Canto IV (the best Canto) by Ezra Pound
derri_daddy: so i can puff puff & read ezra pound in the park & look haughtily at passerby as i study
nonchalantly_: intimate connections between Quine and Ezra Pound
ilenproject: Artist as “ the antenna of the race” Ezra Pound
Ingwit_: Ezra Pound was a fascist bitch and now he's dead
nonchalantly_: Richard Francis Burton staggered so Ezra Pound could swagger
johnstonglenn: Joyce inscribed a copy of Ulysses:
To
Ezra Pound
in token of gratitude
James Joyce
Paris
27 February 1922
FordMadoxFordie: ‘Thanks for the abundant wreathes. [A Draft of] XXX [Cantos] recd. this a. m. from Rinehart.
Salve. E
can you send me copies.’
Ezra Pound acknowledges Ford’s organising the promotional pamphlet, The Cantos of Ezra Pound: Some Testimonies, in a letter of 27 February 1933
last_of_england: Iken, Suffolk. A year ago.
'A blown husk that is finished
but the light sings eternal
a pale flare over marshes
where the salt hay whispers to tide’s change'
Ezra Pound, from Canto CXV
RicardoPozzo: The Complete Recordings of Ezra Pound, rec. 1939-1972 [MP3]:
Virotechnics: Imperial power is?
and to us what is it?
The fourth; the dimension of stillness.
And the power over wild beasts.
—Ezra Pound, Canto XLIX
jsprivette: ‘He has a god in him, / though I do not know which god’ (Ezra Pound, Canto II)
ubuweb: The Complete Recordings of Ezra Pound, rec. 1939-1972 [MP3]:
Poem2Poem: The tree has entered my hands, / The sap has ascended my arms, - Ezra Pound
McLinstitute: “Nowadays there is no conversation at all. Teachers distrust talk as much as business men. It is a mirror in which they too readily see their own vacuous plight. So they won’t have it. The 1st element is mud.”
Marshall McLuhan
letter to Ezra Pound
June 22, 1951
nonchalantly_: There is a Carl Sandburg/Richard Wright side to modernism, and there is an Ezra Pound side to modernism; all of them are lumpenproles
PodcastOoc: Ezra Pound puto fascista.
lisekimhorton: OMG NO ONE GOT THE EZRA POUND OR READING GAOL QUESTIONS!
WriteToRebel: Just learned from Jeopardy that Ezra Pound and John Hinckley both spent time in St. Elizabeth’s
echo_chamberz: “Ezra Pound speaking”
visakanv: Who attended her salons? Some of her guests that you might recognize are: Pablo Picasso, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclar Lewis, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson and Henri Matisse.
Here's Gertrude in her Paris studio, with portrait of her that was painted by Picasso
KnightAuthor: “Literature is news that stays news” - Ezra Pound
VonHash: The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
– Ezra Pound
gachidad: Modernism can suck me, Ezra Pound and TS Eliot were fascists! The Wasteland is a great example of how to make art with the wrong intentions, as is most of modernism
BryanAshkettle: Baseball Canto
"Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,
reading Ezra Pound."
The world is a beautiful place
"The world is a beautiful place to be born into, if you do not mind a touch of hell now and then."
lumin_vulpes: In 1933, Time magazine called Ezra Pound 'a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children'
byzantinepower: Sulpicia wrote six poems in intricate syntax about her love for Cerinthus (ps.). Ezra Pound wrote it would be worth “ten years of a man’s life to translate… her.”
henryghenrik: A passage toward the end of Massimo Bacigalupo’s fine book (Ezra Pound, Italy, and The Cantos). I think he’s saying something special and perceptive here.
henryghenrik: I’m always shadow boxing with Ezra Pound, and all the things I so dislike about him. Because basically there’s something I really like about The Cantos. Maybe it’s the feeling of being OUTDOORS. Despite all the trumpets and haute whatever. Being out of doors. Fresh air.
white_king88: Ezra Pound tutored some of the last centuries most influential writers and poets. However he is rarely given the accolades he deserves. This is because to discover Ezra Pound is to discover a man who noticed in the most profound way possible.
razaantigua: "Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,
reading Ezra Pound,
& wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right thru the Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto"
lumin_vulpes: In 1933, Time magazine called Ezra Pound 'a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children'
oshawols: congrats ezra pound, i understood nothing
paltryform: "the social theorist...has not been careful enough to emphasise that no man is merely a unit. He knows the fact well enough, perhaps. But the error of his propagandist literature is that it does not sufficiently dwell on this matter" Ezra Pound
vjoshuaadams: RIP Lawrence Ferlinghetti:
“Watching baseball, sitting in the sun, eating popcorn,
reading Ezra Pound,
and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through the
Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto
and demolish the barbarian invaders...”
siqintbruce: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough."- Ezra Pound, In a Station of the Metro, 1913
AlexDay01003809: Ezra Pound, Venice, by Walter Mori, 1963
stupid__93: List of original books a head of state accepted but never read or else destroyed: the report Ezra Pound gave Mussolini, the book Simone Weil gave Charles de Gaulle ...
LanceWCIR: RIP poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti: “Watching baseball…reading Ezra Pound,/ and wishing that Juan Marichal would hit a hole right through the/Anglo-Saxon tradition in the first Canto”
aristofontes: What dead famous person would have had the worst twitter account? I'm guessing probably Ezra Pound.
EurydiceEve: The thought of what America would be like .. Cantico del Sole, read by Ezra Pound
MsOneWorld4Me: “Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.”
― Ezra Pound
StuartEtc: Woody Allen is a terrible person, probably a criminal. I still love Sleeper. Roman Polanski is a terrible person and criminal. I still love Chinatown. Ezra Pound was a terrible person and criminal. I still love The Cantos. Art needs to be divorced from the people who make it.
schlock_jaw: Ezra Pound
tonytost: Some critique that they don't know what Adam Curtis' argument is in his films. That seems off. I take Curtis as working more in the mode of Ezra Pound's THE CANTOS or Charles Olson's MAXIMUS POEMS: linking together luminous, disparate details in order to *feel* the connections.
tonytost: Plus his weaving together of coincidence & unintended consequences & recurring patterns & buried connections satisfies my inner conspiracy theorist and my own very Ezra Pound/WB Yeats's A VISION influenced sense of history as the half-mad shuffling of gyres and masks.
QuoteText1: It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. - Ezra Pound
IanBuckley4: Certain objects are communicable to a man or woman only 'with proper lighting', they are perceptible in our own minds only with proper 'lighting', fitfully and by instants.
––Ezra Pound. Guide to Kulchur
lumin_vulpes: In 1933, Time magazine called Ezra Pound 'a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children'
JoshuaSkwatt: if i never hear the name "Ezra Pound" ever again I will die with love in my heart
clinamen_os: The enemy is the suppression of history; against us is the bewildering propaganda and brainwash, luxury and violence. ”
— Ezra Pound
MelanieJaxn: And the days are not long enough,
And the nights are not long enough,
And life slips by like a field mouse,
Not even shaking the grass.
–Ezra Pound
KarlSteel: As Peter Salmon observes, if you wanted to hide from your collaboration with the Nazis, and had such a family, perhaps you wouldn't have been a bigamist who faked various college degrees. On the other hand, a more than competent reader of literature. The Ezra Pound problem?
caspar_v: "joyce’s fellow modernists, ezra pound, eliot, virginia woolf and aldous huxley, frequently attempted to incorporate musical structure, especially the fugue and the quartet, into their writings."
RealSardonicus: Ezra Pound, c.1913
dulce_base_: watch out ezra pound, theyre coming for your crown
brdofthesmmr: The Second Coming, THE WASTE LAND & THE LOVE SONG OF J ALFRED PRUFROCK, just tons of works by modernists tbh I Love Modernism... love to hate my nemesis Ezra Pound... I’m getting emotional I miss going to school and talking about books
DerorCurrency: The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.
Ezra Pound
regularcars_bot: Hey son where are you going? Come back here! I wrote a song and it goes BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN EZRA POUND
lumin_vulpes: In 1933, Time magazine called Ezra Pound 'a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children'
lancaster_words: Ezra Pound's The Garret starts our Sunday.
RobertSteuckers: Ezra Pound and the Corporate State
DerorCurrency: The technique of infamy is to invent two lies, then get people arguing heatedly over which one of them is true.
Ezra Pound
Poem2Poem: The tree has entered my hands, / The sap has ascended my arms, - Ezra Pound
regularcars_bot: Hey son where are you going? Come back here! I wrote a song and it goes BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN BROWN EZRA POUND
ClementsAustinJ: If Ezra Pound were alive today he’d be a contributor to American Conservative. Nothing will change my mind on this
Excerpts from “Jefferson and/or Mussolini” 1935
Pinandpuller: He was no Ezra Pound.
LookingAtLilacs: H.D. was the best imagist by far. Ezra Pound can go suck a rock.
0penbo0k: On February 19 1949, Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University.
jwmeirose: Ezra Pound at the Grave of James Joyce.,
jwmeirose: Analysis of The Garden by Ezra Pound | Poem Analysis
lumin_vulpes: In 1933, Time magazine called Ezra Pound 'a cat that walks by himself, tenaciously unhousebroken and very unsafe for children'
kesaranpasaraan: The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.
(“In a Station of the Metro”, Ezra Pound, 1913)
steve_missouri: Anyone Else find it very Strange that Julian Assange should be a POLITICAL PRISONER in the same way EZRA POUND was in the old days??? Anyone?
e8chin: And then so many interesting scientists/people on Twitter. Sometimes I truly feel like “The apparition of these faces in the crowd:
Petals on a wet, black bough.” -Ezra Pound
LivesPoetry: On this day 19th February 2021
Ezra Pound’s modern poetry
michaeldacosta: Genius weighs in - Ezra Pound’s modern poetry
ThenTwasI: T.S. Eliot, Preface to Ezra Pound's Selected Poems (1928)
hazelmason10: 'And the days are not full enough
And the nights are not full enough
And life slips by like a field mouse
Not shaking the grass.'
Ezra Pound
thepainterflynn: Today in 1949 Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University
sulsitodisimone: February 19 1949 � Ezra Pound is awarded the first Bollingen Prize in poetry by the Bollingen Foundation and Yale University
MBerePeterson: Ezra Pound
UNDWritingCtr: Take Ezra Pound's "In a Station of a Metro" as your inspiration:
david_perell: The poet Ezra Pound said that "artists are the antennae of human civilization."
But technologists are the new artists. They're cartographers of the frontier. So if you want to build the future, study what technologists have already figured out and translate it for a new audience
rogger_ebooks: I got a weird tangent about Ezra Pound or something.
Pendidikan4Id: “This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
― Ezra Pound
ClementsAustinJ: I’m beginning to get the distinct impression Ezra Pound was a little nuts
NaserEDHG: "The Waste Land" one of my favourite poems. When I ever hear them or read it I remember Ezra Pound's marvellous "Cantos".
doubtline: Last fun memory of in-person teaching: finding Ezra Pound’s “In a Station of the Metro” newly written on a men’s room stall the day after we discussed it in class.