"The apparition of these faces in the crowd;……" — Ezra Pound
"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough."
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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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Since everything is but an apparition, having nothing to do with good or bad, acceptance or rejection, one may well…
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In every block of marble I see a statue as plain as though it stood before me, shaped and perfect…
— Michelangelo
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Our EMF meter was jumping off the charts. We found her alarm clock was causing crazy electro-magnetic fields around it.…
— Jason Hawes
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Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with…
— Gautama Buddha
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I found everything so remote but, at the same time, familiar when I occasionally looked into the mountains, rocks, pine…
— Unknown Author
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A specter is haunting the cinema: the specter of narrative. If that apparition is an Angel, we must embrace it;…
— Hollis Frampton
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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a…
— William Wordsworth
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...it was a huge creature, luminous, ghastly, and spectral. I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman,…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Umlaut snaps around and we cut to a blond apparition in her early twenties, clearly descended from Olympus by way…
— Woody Allen
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We are repeatedly left, in other words, with no further focus than ourselves, a source from which self-pity naturally flows.…
— Joan Didion
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Whosoever enjoys not this life, I count him but an apparition, though he wear about him the sensible affections of…
— Thomas Browne
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I often see through things right to the apparition itself.
— Grace Paley
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