Alter | 140 Jahre |
Beruf | Dichter, Komponist, Literaturkritiker |
Geburtsdatum | Freitag, 30. Oktober 1885 |
Geburtsort | Hailey |
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Beschreibung | Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30. Oktober 1885 - 1. November 1972) war ein im Ausland lebender amerikanischer Dichter und Kritiker, eine wichtige Figur der frühen modernistischen Lyrikbewegung und ein faschistischer Kollaborateur in Italien während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Zu seinen Werken zählen Ripostes (1912), Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (1920) und sein 800-seitiges episches Gedicht The Cantos (ca. 1917-1962). |
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
