Without character you will be unable to play on that instru… - Ezra Pound

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Without character you will
be unable to play on that instrument

Ezra Pound

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About Ezra Pound

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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The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets literature decay than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

It has been complained, with some justice, that I dump my note-books on the public.

I never was. When I left the hospital I was still in America and all America is an insane asylum.

Without character you will be unable to play on that instrument - Ezra Pound

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