"What matters is not the idea a man……" — Ezra Pound
"What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it."
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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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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The…
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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,…
— Emilie Autumn
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
— Francis Bacon
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There are worlds of experience beyond the world of the aggressive man, beyond history, and beyond science. The moods and…
— Ansel Adams
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No, I think the pitching today has more depth.
— Ernie Banks
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During my time, there might have been one pitcher or two that were top pitchers on a team. Teams that…
— Ernie Banks
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The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in…
— Henry Adams
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That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and…
— Amelia Barr
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To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what…
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between…
— Hans Bender
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No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.
— Georges Bernanos
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