Ezra Pound Quotes

Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

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• My arm bones looked like chicken bones.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Like
  • Bones
  • Chicken

• There's more to life than cheek bones.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • More
  • Bones

• The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Death
  • Terror

• Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • Me
  • Found
  • Metal

• The war on terror is the war in Afghanistan.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Terror
  • Afghanistan

• You don't talk to terror organizations!

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • You
  • Talk
  • Terror

• The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Force
  • Terror
  • Superior

• And thus He mused: 'From here, indeedShall we strike terror in the Swede?And here a city by our laborFounded, shall gall our haughty neighbor;'Here cut' – so Nature gives command –Your window through on Europe; standFirm-footed by the sea, unchanging!

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • Nature
  • City
  • Sea

• I tried to, from my very early years, I've been an inveterate movie goer and still am and I, I love the medium. So what I, what I draw and what I'm still doing, is part of that particular orientation.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Movie
  • Draw
  • Orientation

• An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

  

  Walter de La Mare
  • Hours
  • Lifetime
  • Terror

• It gives you hope in salvation and perspective in the life that we live today. It's nice to know there's good out there in a world full of terror and evil.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• My mother always called me 'sturdy' and said I have big bones. A little fat is what I am.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Mother
  • Littles
  • Bigs

• We should fight terror, by all means, but not at the cost of cutting off any chance of talks with the pragmatists.

  

  Ami Ayalon
  • Chance
  • Cutting
  • Terror

• Gotta bone ter pick with yeh. I've heard you've bin givin' out signed photos. How come I haven't got one?

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Heard
  • Bones
  • Havens

• The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Reason
  • Afraid
  • Terror

• The most terrible of all things is terror.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Terrible
  • Terror

• He pressed himself into me and kissed my neck, and it was as if everything strong and solid inside me, heart and bones and muscle and gut, softened and melted from the heat of him.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Heart
  • Bones
  • Muscle

• The last four weeks where we have gone unbeaten, albeit a draw against the Bulls, have been crucial for us as a team and have given us a chance in this competition.

  

  Ian Foster
  • Chance
  • Competition
  • Draw

• Tout le sang qui coule rouge; All blood is red.

  

  Eugene Bullard
  • Red
  • Blood

• I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want: I don't want to just repeat myself.

  

  David Gray
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Repeat

• I met a solid rowing friend and asked about the Race. "How fared it with the wind," I said, "When stroke increased the pace? You swung it forward mightily, you heaved it greatly back. "Your muscles rose in knotted lumps, I almost heard the crack. "And while we roared and rattled too, your eyes were fixed like glue. "What thoughtwent flying through your mind, how fared it, Five, with you?" But Five made answer solemnly, "I heard them fire a gun, "No other mortal thing I heard until the Race was done."

  

  R. C. Lehmann
  • Said
  • Flying
  • Muscles

• Quiet this metal! Let the manes put off their terror, let them put off their aqueous bodies with fire. Let them assume the milk-white bodies of agate. Let them draw together the bones of the metal.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Terror
  • Bones
  • Draw