"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too……" — Ezra Pound
"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."
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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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Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of…
— Thomas A. Edison
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God loves you enough , trusts you enough, to let affliction come into your life to see whether you will…
— John Howe
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My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts,…
— Charles Darwin
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A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money.
— E. Stanley Jones
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far…
— Ezra Pound
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Nothing speeds brain atrophy more than being immobilized in the same environment...
— Norman Doidge
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The exact process you use to build courage isn't important. What's important is that you consciously do it. Just as…
— Steve Pavlina
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There cannot be mental atrophy in any person who continues to observe, to remember what he observes, and to seek…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity…
— Coleman Dowell
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