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Them Quotes by Ezra Pound
- That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it,…
- The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the leaves Scurry into heaps and…
- Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies…
- I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
- It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his…
- When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
- If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
- There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization.
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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