"The flavors of the peach and the apricot……" — Ezra Pound
"The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning."
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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 Apricot Quotes
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one of 7 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot…
— Cecil Beaton
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I love, love, love apricot baby food. My closet in the kitchen is filled with jars of it. I love…
— Alicia Silverstone
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All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting-place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow…
— Henry Austin Dobson
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Girls get screwed. Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty…
— L. Frank Baum
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A field trip. You interested in doing something dangerous, and possibly illegal?" Does it involve underage girls, broken curfews and…
— Rachel Vincent
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