"And New York is the most beautiful city……" — Ezra Pound
"And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will."
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174 Quotes by Ezra Pound
Ezra Pound has 174 quotes on this site.
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding…
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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…
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Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control…
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew…
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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…
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because…
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then…
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My wireless transmitter does not use Hertzian waves, which are a grievous myth, but sound waves in the aether...
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Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through the agency of the aether…
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The aether: Invented by Isaac Newton, reinvented by James Clerk Maxwell. This is the stuff that fills up the empty…
— Leon M. Lederman
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We have now got what seems to be definite proof that an X ray which spreads out in a spherical…
— Henry Moseley
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There is no space without aether, and no aether which does not occupy space.
— Arthur Eddington
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In the most modern theories of physics probability seems to have replaced aether as "the nominative of the verb 'to…
— Arthur Eddington
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In your letter you apply the word imponderable to a molecule. Don't do that again. It may also be worth…
— James Clerk Maxwell
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[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation,…
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Lady Maccon stopped suddenly. Her husband got four long strides ahead before he realized she had paused. She was starring…
— Gail Carriger
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PREMONITIONS OF PAIN, PRECOGNITIONS OF FAME, OVERSTAND MY FOCUS THEN NOTICE MY OTHER AIM, YES I'M OVERLY OPEN WITH EVERYTHING…
— AEILEON
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