Ezra Pound Quotes
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.
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I heard it in 2008 and hear it again now - this notion that the only reason one would support Hillary Clinton is because she is a woman - or only because she is experienced and smart. She is all of those things. But I am with her because... Hillary Clinton inspires me.
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Every record we do, we do one song we didn't write.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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visiting Jackson Pollock’s studio: You do not work from nature. This is no good, you will repeat yourself. You work by heart, not from nature. Pollock reacted: 'I am nature
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If they come prying they can leave curious.
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They are beautiful monsters... And when they live in a network of peace and hope, when they trust the world and their deepest hungers are fulfilled, then within that system, that delicate web, there is joy. That is what we live for, to bind the monsters together, to murder their fear and give birth to their beauty.
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Sed ego adolescentulus initio sicuti plerique studio ad rem publicam latus sum, ibique mihi multa adversa fuere. Nam pro pudore, pro abstinentia, pro virtute, audacia, largitio, avaritia vigebant.
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Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice.
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How would you like to have a thousand brilliantly colored cliff swallows keeping house in the eaves of your barn, and gobbling up insects over your farm at the rate of 100,000 per day? There are many Wisconsin farmsteads where such a swallow-show is a distinct possibility.
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I can say without affectation that I belong to the Russian convict world no less … than I do to Russian literature. I got my education there, and it will last forever.
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I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.
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For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
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I'm not a writer who refuses to talk about a book until I've finished.
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How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morne not waking til she sings.
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To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god.
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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The one who is truly blessed is the one who wants to make everyone's dreams come true.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
