Ezra Pound Quotes About Reading

We have collected for you the TOP of Ezra Pound's best quotes about Reading! Here are collected all the quotes about Reading starting from the birthday of the Poet – October 30, 1885! We hope you will be inspired to new achievements with our constantly updated collection of quotes. At the moment, this page contains 6 sayings of Ezra Pound about Reading. We will be happy if you share our collection of quotes with your friends on social networks!
  • Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

  • No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

    Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.100, New Directions Publishing
  • With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

    Ezra Pound (1970). “The Cantos of Ezra Pound”, p.447, New Directions Publishing
  • Literature is news that stays news.

    The ABC of Reading ch. 2 (1934)
  • The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.

    Ezra Pound (1952). “Guide to Kulchur”, p.55, New Directions Publishing
  • Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

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