"Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring." — Ezra Pound
"Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring."
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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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More Cheap Quotes
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Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Products made in China are cheap through the exploitation of the workforce. Every time we shop, we are driving the…
— Joe Baca
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My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
— Randy Bachman
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I was just a cheap little starlet hardly acting at all in a very mediocre film.
— Brigitte Bardot
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on…
— Roseanne Barr
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The focus should not be on talking. Talk is cheap. It must be on action.
— Howard Berman
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It's the old adage: You can make a pizza so cheap, nobody will eat it. You can make an airline…
— Gordon Bethune
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is…
— Edward de Bono
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I never minded flying cheap. I always said to myself, 'Taking this flight saves enough money to rescue four dogs,…
— Elayne Boosler
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Get up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Viewed from a distance, or through the eye of the All-Knowing CEO of the Universe, the crash of 2008 followed…
— James Buchan
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I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.
— Warren Buffett
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