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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in…

— Richard Louv

Look at 'American Idol,' which I don't look at. Those winners haven't become household names except for Jennifer Hudson, and she was a reject.…

— Andre Leon Talley

We became somewhat household names really quickly, within a matter of - what? - three, four months. So it's hard to get used to,…

— Ruben Studdard

So many musicians are coming to the forefront and are becoming household names.

— Jonita Gandhi

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that…

— Joseph Epstein

“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and transcendent stages…

— Jewel Spears Brooker

“Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work. --Ezra Pound”

— Ezra Pound

Ezra Pound was a pioneer of the most exciting aesthetic movement of the 20th century.

— Ash Sarkar

Some of my pictures are poem-like in the sense that they are very condensed, haiku-lik. There are others that, if they were poetry, would…

— Sally Mann

[On Ezra Pound:] A village explainer, excellent if you were a village, but if you were not, not.

— Gertrude Stein

Take Ezra Pound's translations of poetry from Chinese. He doesn't really know Chinese, and the very strange results that he comes up with aren't…

— Elliott Colla

The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our…

— Charles Bukowski