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Ezra Loomis Pound
(1885 - 1972)
American poet and critic.
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Science Quotes by Ezra Loomis Pound (4 quotes)
“You damn sadist,” said Mr Cummings, “you try to make people think.”
— Ezra Loomis Pound
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
— Ezra Loomis Pound
From essay 'Henry James', Literary Essays (1918), 297. Collected in Instigations of Ezra Pound: Together with an Essay on the Chinese Written Character (1920), 109.
Quiet this metal!
Let the manes put off their terror, let
them put off their aqueous bodies with fire.
Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate.
Let them draw together the bones of the metal.
Let the manes put off their terror, let
them put off their aqueous bodies with fire.
Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate.
Let them draw together the bones of the metal.
— Ezra Loomis Pound
'The Alchemist: Chant for the Transmutation of Metal'. In T. S. Eliot (ed.), Ezra Pound: Selected Poems (1928), 61-2.
Real knowledge goes into natural man in tidbits. A scrap here, a scrap there; always pertinent, linked to safety or nutrition or pleasure. Human curiosity survives and is catered for, by the twopenny weeklies, 24 lines on chromosomes, six lines on a three-headed calf.
— Ezra Loomis Pound
From Culture (1938). Reprinted as Guide to Kulchur (1952, 1970), 99.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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