Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSIST… - Ezra Pound

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Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

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Ezra Pound (October 30, 1885 – November 1, 1972) was an American expatriate poet, musician and critic who was a major figure of the Modernist movement in early to mid-20th century poetry. He was the driving force behind several Modernist movements including Imagism and Vorticism.

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Native Name: Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

Alternative Names: Ezra Loomis Pound

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W. H. Auden William Carlos Williams T. S. Eliot Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Samuel Johnson

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I have tried to write Paradise
Do not move
Let the wind speak.
that is paradise.
Let the Gods forgive what I
have made
Let those I love try to forgive
what I have made.

It is better to present one image in a lifetime than to produce voluminous work.

I have gone here and there through the heathen, and I see that they flow in wealth, and think not upon thy commandments.

Real education must ultimately be limited to one who INSISTS on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding. - Ezra Pound

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