"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."
― Ezra Pound
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Power
― Ezra Pound
More From Ezra Pound
- "Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
- "Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
- "The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
More In Power
- "Truth is powerful and it prevails."― Sojourner Truth
- "If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It’s raining? That doesn’t matter. I am tired? That’s besides the point. It’s simply that I just have to."― Emil Zatopek
- "I used to wish there was a useful term for those of us who thought American power should be used to remove psychopathic dictators."― Christopher Hitchens