EZRA POUND ON MUSIC, POETRY, AND DANCE November 3, 2008
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Ezra Pound offers an interesting theory on the relationship of poetry to music and dance: “Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance… poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.”
EZRA POUND ON WRITERS November 3, 2008
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Ezra Pound defines “good writers” in an interesting way: “Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.” This has been my mission in life, so am I a good writer or just an efficient, accurate, and clear writer? Remains to be seen . . . .
EZRA POUND ON READING November 3, 2008
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Ezra Pound said of reading, “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.” I wonder whether a woman should feel the same way?
CURIOSITY AND WORK November 1, 2008
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In his memoir, Touch and Go, Studs Terkel wrote, “My curiosity keeps me going. My epitaph is all set: ‘Curiosity did not kill this cat.’ I took a vacation once–it involved a beach–and to tell you the truth, I had no idea what to do with myself. It was torture. Work is life. Without it, there is no life.” He published his memoir in November 2007 and died a year later when he was 96.
FOOD November 1, 2008
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Michael Pollan, author of The Omnivore’s Dilemma, says “Don’t eat food that won’t eventually rot. Don’t eat packaged food with more than five ingredients. And don’t eat anything with ingredients you can’t pronounce.”
SCIENCE AND WISDOM November 1, 2008
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In her book Leaving Resurrection: Chronicles of a Whale Scientist, marine biologist Eva Saulitis says scientific method creates a shape, “a net of words.” Data, facts — these increase our knowledge — “but the step to wisdom is less certain.”
