"When words cease to cling close to things,……" — Ezra Pound
"When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish."
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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 Cease Quotes
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I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let…
— Pietro Aretino
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Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
— Mary Kay Ash
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The man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius, but the greatest genius is not…
— Honore de Balzac
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A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.
— Brigitte Bardot
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When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring,…
— David Brainerd
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Cease trying to work everything out with your minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and…
— Eileen Caddy
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The day when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.
— Albert Camus
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I wish your increase in holiness, number, love, religion, and righteousness; and wait you, and cease to contend with these…
— Donald Cargill
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
— Thomas Carlyle
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on…
— Oswald Chambers
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