Ezra Pound — a remark

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“Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.”

Framing the writer's duty as preserving linguistic precision for society · Essay, ABC of Reading (1934)

About Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound

30 October 1885–1 November 1972

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was born on 30 October 1885 in Hailey, in the Idaho Territory of the United States, and died on 1 November 1972 in Venice, Italy. Few writers altered the course of twentieth-century poetry as decisively as he did, and few have left behind a legacy so divided between artistic admiration and…

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