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Erbhof: "I would agree with Ezra Pound’s statement that Hamilton was 'the Prime snot in ALL American history'"
What did Pound mean by this?
NArcheofuturist: Really upset Ezra Pound didn’t get into Calvinism instead of Confucianism, could have been the most based timeline
HombreMenguant6: Alvin Langdon Coburn, Vortograph of Ezra Pound, 1917.
KHWalker4U: IN A STATION OF THE METRO
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black, bough. - Haiku by American Ezra Pound
Photo "Apple Blossoms" © Kathleen Walker
basedagrippa: Little known poem of Ezra Pound depicting EMPIRE: an African potentate chained to a fountain before Buckingham Palace. Dedicated to “my brother in chains Bonga-Bonga”. Was Pound a racist, or friend to all men?
Kar2839Karanja: If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.,Ezra Pound,System, Hold, Point ,
mfrancispoet: These are the poems of Eliot
By the Uranian muse begot.
A man their mother was,
A muse their sire.
Ezra Pound.
gallo_orlando: EZRA POUND
mkimdorman: Time of almonds in flower
and songs half spoken;
walnut's bough now
keeps sun off threshed oats.
-Saturno Montanari,
from "Stagione di Fiori"
(tr. Ezra Pound)
gingermophobia: jk rowling is the ezra pound of YA
mkimdorman: Road in the open there,
all sun and grain-dust
and sour air
from the canal bank,
Ditch-water higher now
with the tide,
turns violet and red.
-Saturno Montanari,
from "Pomeriggio di Luglio"
(tr. Ezra Pound)
elcielosondos: Ezra Pound - Canto CXX
Boydesian: I angered Twitter's small, but intensely annoying group of Ezra Pound apologists.
QuacksAnonymous: "Our indispensable Magazine is DOUBT, the Fortean Society publication - even if Tiffany Thayer, editor, does think Ezra Pound is a great poet and that PK experiments are a new kind of crap game."
— Meade Layne, 1945.
ouch.
Rufus_Hickok: Well, this Zukofsky guy finally clicked with me. I'd read his correspondence with Ezra Pound (speaking of cranks!) and *tried* to read "A" and couldn't quite get it. But this collection is fresh, vibrant, and real to me.
Cavalier1642: Because Ezra Pound was right. They are locked up in a psychiatric facility, a big one, and it's called America.
aestheticist_: Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
-Catullus
I hate and love. Why? You may ask but
It beats me. I feel it done to me and ache.
-Ezra Pound
RBrookhiser: And Ezra Pound made even better translations without knowing the languages at all.
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
bsaspoetry: Ezra Pound en Blast! I & II
narrowpath007: "The Talmud is the One and Only Begetter of the Bolshevik System”
— Ezra Pound
TheHMProA: "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep herding." ― Ezra Pound
PoesiaRecitada: Ezra Pound - Famam librosque cano
startupsalien: Ai; One of the most famous short poems is "In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound, an American poet and a leading figure of the Imagist movement in the early 20th century. The poem reads:
The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
monkeyrotica: lmao, AI bots apologizing for Ezra Pound is peak tech bro.
BSteersman: Ezra Pound called Futurism 'accelerated impressionism'
RamellaUgo: Ezra Pound
MariaEConstant1: PS. I said you ought to learn languages. IF you learn other languages, you wouldn't get stuck quoting the white supremacist bastards like Ezra Pound. Li Qing Zhao is a great woman Chinese medieval poet. Believed in drunkenness and wandering.
sylvie_longeron: “Rhythm must have meaning.”
Ezra Pound
pauljimerson: Dejected at having no further luck in America with his poetry, Frost and his wife moved to England in 1912. There, he found a champion in poet Ezra Pound, who helped get Frost’s first two books, A Boy’s Will (1913) and North of Boston (1914), published.
LilacsLasting: ‘ezra pound broke gertrude steins favourite chair’
‘christopher isherwood breaking and entering era’
‘f scott fitzgerald has a massive dick’
‘truman capote is a little bitch
AshleyKarve3: This particular human being is likely to lose their shit if they find out how many people appreciate ezra pound without getting disgusting rabid fascists
sean_tatol: say what you will about ezra pound, the cantos were the first place i learned anything useful about monetary theory
johnstonglenn: Sovereignty by Ezra Pound
The European, March 1953
dylanfan8: Jeremy Irons Reads TS Eliot's 'The Waste Land' BBC Radio 4
simpreneurship: "When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary."
— Ezra Pound
gilleszimmerman: "A slave is someone who waits for someone to come and free him."
Ezra Pound
mythicalmidge: “(Something about Ezra Pound and Confucianism)…” - the wind
naomi7444: Go in fear of abstractions. No idea but in things (Ezra Pound)
RDPohl1: As Erza Pound was making a splash with “translations” of Chinese poetry, immigrants from China were etching poems of despair into the walls of a California detention facility.
Wes_theLargo: Normalize describing usury as “syphilis of the State” or “Wart of the commonweal” (my thanks to Ezra Pound)
3QD: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
Maggie_McNeill: "If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates." – Ezra Pound
_pinehutch: link to the rest of it:
epshita_c: "A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
- Ezra Pound
StawickiMichal: “If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.” – Ezra Pound
justified_jamms: Ezra Pound. Not legal tender.
ColeHenri: Love this from "The Paris Review" and Ezra Pound:
“Hast thou 2 loaves of bread …”
Hast thou 2 loaves of bread
Sell one + with the dole
Buy straightaway some hyacinths
To feed thy soul.
betterthanstar2: I often wish that Ezra Pound had made the slogan of modernism “Make it fresh” or “Make it interesting” instead of “Make it new.” The push for novelty over worthier qualities has taken us to a dead end;
-from A. M. Juster with Alfred Nicol
dsaguinaldo: Ezra Pound
Prison_Health: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
As Pound was making a splash with “translations” of Chinese poetry, immigrants from China were etching poems of despair into the walls of a detention facility.
msjennimiller: sometimes cohabitation is like, "whyyy are you telling me about the tumultuous friendship between Jewish poet Louis Zukofsky and noted antisemite Ezra Pound when I am trying to take a nap" and then sometimes it's like, sure, let's move to a French town full of giant contraptions.
asymptotejrnl: Did you know that in the 1930s and 40s Chinese immigrants scrawled poems on the walls of detention centers in Angel Island?
Composed contemporaneously with Ezra Pound's translations, these verses offer a different image of the perceived "Chinese poem":
welfordwrites: If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good. Ezra Pound
SarcasmLiving: A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him. – Ezra Pound
johnstonglenn: Ezra Pound by Richard Avedon. Now to find somewhere for it.
WhenIsBirths: 'Ezra Pound and Mike Pence share a flat, somehow, it is hilarious'
orb1973: Ezra Pound documentary
nader18cwpmi: The Poetics of Impersonality: T S Eliot and Ezra Pound 9C3WOGN
royalrebelrules: "In this century Ezra Pound called the artist 'the antennae of the race'. ART AS RADAR acts as an 'early alarm system', as it were, enabling us to DISCOVER SOCIAL & PSYCHIC TARGETS in lots of time to prepare to cope with them." UM, 1964
Arts as prophetic > mere self-expression.
AmericanGwyn: 3. This is the kind of magazine Ezra Pound would’ve done back in the day before he became Mussolini’s podcaster.
synekura_audio: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
theotherjude: Nearly derived Ezra Pound from one two-hour class on Genealogy of Morals :/
noxrosa: Dinner table discussion about how great it is Ezra Pound wasn't alive at the same time as the internet.
metaglossia: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
grahamhjpage: For World Poetry Day:
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
pinkkudu: I like Ezra Pound, I like Ye. I think they both need to calm down.
alltherowbots: Ezra Pound sat upon my bed
Asked me which books as of late I've read
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
antisyrizas: ”Literature is news that stays news.”
Ezra Pound
MarkAPierceNE: Next Ezra Pound:
Pendidikan4Id: “This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.”
― Ezra Pound
ChinatownVoices: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
Raman_qu: - The magnificent Ezra Pound
tseliotquotebot: For Ezra Pound, il miglior fabbro
oskoreimotpol: Without honour men sink into servitude. - Ezra Pound
longaevi: 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
chimichangasT: “Rhythm must have meaning.”
Ezra Pound
johnstonglenn: OTD in 1922 Ezra Pound wrote to HL Mencken: "The Christian Era ended at midnight on Oct. 29-30 of last year. You are now in the year 1 p.s.U. [post scriptum Ulysses], if that is any comfort to you." Joyce told Pound he had finished writing the novel on Oct. 29 1921.
LectorAntiquus: AI: paint a portrait of the daughter of Ezra Pound and Gio Scotti. Will hang it in my dining room later.
valentin13q: Cathay: Ezra Pound's Orient (Penguin Specials) 9MAGQEP
Pendidikan4Id: “Literature is news that stays news.”
― Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading
jmjmus: Ezra Pound's daughter has a castle
Check it out.
DinahKolka: I don’t know if you guys realise this but there’s a website with copies of modernist magazines, this including Wyndham Lewis’ Blast and the English Review and the Egoist and there’s Ezra Pound too and YOU MUST check it out
WCAAimpact: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
Inframethod: "Good writers are those who keep the language efficient," said Ezra Pound. To do so, they had to be read, of course. In the future, good writers may be those whose work is used to fine tune the language models that efficiently produce mediocre prose.
bsehart: “Rhythm must have meaning.”
Ezra Pound
LucyLondon7: Happy World Poetry Day
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet who lived in England a while and met Edward Thomas (of the group known as the Dymock poets and Frost's inspiration for his poem "The Road Not Taken"), T. E. Hulme, and Ezra Pound.
Prison_Health: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
As Pound was making a splash with “translations” of Chinese poetry, immigrants from China were etching poems of despair into the walls of a detention facility.
typode: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
nicotinedreamin: 70 bis Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, the one-time address of Ezra Pound. Paris was where he’d meet his long-time mistress and companion, concert violinist Olga Rudge.
allenmendenhall: Lost in Translation: Ezra Pound’s Imagism and the Angel Island Poets
KrakeJames: Wrapped up Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading, not sure I got anything from it except homework...
plasmabitcoin: In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
-Ezra Pound
plasmabitcoin: When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
-Ezra Pound
plasmabitcoin: Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
-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
UkNatArchives: Nancy lived to London in 1911 and from there lived across the globe, becoming involved in literary scenes as a writer and becoming the muse of others, including Aldous Huxley, Samuel Beckett, and Ezra Pound.
hassanjatoi72: “Rhythm must have meaning.”
Ezra Pound
Pendidikan4Id: “No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.”
― Ezra Pound
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Jonah M.: I love this poem.
