“My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.” — Ezra Pound | V2Melody

“My worst mistake was the stupid suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.”

A late admission of error regarding a long-held prejudice · Conversation with Allen Ginsberg (1960s)

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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“Use no superfluous word, no adjective which does not reveal something.”

Advocating economy and exactness in poetic expression · A Retrospect

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“Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”

Linking the vitality of the arts to their roots in bodily rhythm and sound · Preface, ABC of Reading (1934)

“I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.”

Associating worthwhile character with an intolerance of mediocrity · Letter, Selected Letters of Ezra Pound