Ezra Pound Quotes


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


Citations

Pound, Ezra. The Letters of Ezra Pound 1907-1941, edited by D. D. Paige, Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950, p. 113.

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Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound
  • Born: October 30, 1885
  • Died: November 1, 1972
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an expatriate American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a fascist collaborator in Italy during World War II. His works include Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920), and his 800-page epic poem, The Cantos (c. 1917–1962).