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Ezra Pound Quotes about Genius

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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound
Men, Ordinary, Genius
Jefferson and/or Mussolini ch. 23 (1935)

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Pound
Genius, Inferiority, Madness

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Ezra Pound
Men, Expression, Genius
1918 Letter to J B Yeats, 4 Feb.

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

Ezra Pound
Taken, Genius, Way

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