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Inspirational Quotes by Ezra Pound
- If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
- Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
- The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
- Wars are made to make debt.
- The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
- Haie! Haie! These were the swift to harry; These the keen-scented; These were the souls of blood. Slow on the leash, pallid the leash-men!
- The artist is always beginning.
- Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
- America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
- Artists are the antennae of the race.
- Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.
- Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
- I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
- A little light, like a rushlight / to lead back to splendour.
- Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
- Properly, we should read for power.
- Rhythm must have meaning.
- Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
- Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
- A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
- Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
- Either move or be moved.
- Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
- I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
- Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento