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Ezra Pound has 179 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why…
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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The only chance for victory over the brainwash is the right of every man to have his ideas judged one at a…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes,…
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself…
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To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary,…
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To survive, our minds must taste redwood, and agate, octopi, bat, and in the bat's mouth, insect. It's hard to think like…
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Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume…
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Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by…
— Mary McCarthy
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Perhaps if the year was 1447 instead of 1947 I might have hoodwinked my gentle nature by administering her some classical poison…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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I imagined my soul taking in these words like silicated water in the Petrified Forest, turning my wood to patterned agate. I…
— Janet Fitch
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O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies’ midwife, and she comes In…
— William Shakespeare
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The first pair Opal and Amber are, Agate sings in B flat, the wolf avatar, A duet-solutio! - with Aquamarine. Mighty Emerald…
— Kerstin Gier
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James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare,…
— Donald Sinden
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