"The age demanded an image Of its accelerated……" — Ezra Pound
"The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace."
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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 Accelerated Quotes
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one of 45 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Today, companies have to radically revolutionize themselves every few years just to stay relevant. That's because technology and the Internet…
— Nolan Bushnell
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This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,…
— Margaret Chan
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The greatest change in corporate culture - and the way business is being conducted - may be the accelerated growth…
— Peter Drucker
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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it…
— Charles Tilly
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We are upsetting the atmosphere upon which all life depends. In the late 80s when I began to take climate…
— David Suzuki
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About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at…
— Deke Slayton
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Our society has reoriented itself to the present moment. Everything is live, real time, and always-on. It’s not a mere…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because…
— Nicolas Roeg
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Since President Obama assumed office three years ago, federal spending has accelerated at a pace without precedent in recent history.
— Mitt Romney
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Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking…
— Charles P. Kindleberger
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The training and equipping of Iraqi security forces should be accelerated.
— Peter DeFazio
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Some young ladies are so starved for male approval that what should be a normal attraction to men is accelerated…
— T.D. Jakes
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