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Ezra Pound Quotes about Children

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The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant

The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.

Ezra Pound
Letting Go, Country, Children
"Confucius to Cummings: An Anthology of Poetry".

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

Ezra Pound
Art, Children, Light
Ezra Pound, Harriet Zinnes (1980). “Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts”, p.204, New Directions Publishing

Usura slayeth the child in the womb It stayeth the young man's courting It hath brought palsey to bed, lyeth between the young bride and her bridegroom

Ezra Pound
Children, Men, Bed
Cantos no. 45, l. 42 (1937)

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