Ezra Pound Quotes

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

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• The institutions of Churchianity are not Christianity. An institution is a good thing if it is second; immediately an institution recognizes itself it becomes the dominating factor.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Good
  • Christianity
  • Recognize

• My soul has grown over the years, and some of my views have changed. As long as I am alive, I will continue to try to understand more because the work of the heart is never done.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Soul
  • Understand
  • Views

• When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Secret

• The picture of me as a child is that I was always with a ball - that's why I was so skinny: I would miss dinner. Mum would have to leave me some food in the microwave.

  

  Riyad Mahrez
  • Child
  • Ball
  • Skinny

• We have a model that we're following, and it's the Libya model.

  

  Mitchell Reiss
  • Model
  • Following

• All of the good, weird stories I’ve written are based on things I’ve dredged out of my subconscious. That’s the real stuff. Everything else is fake.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Real
  • Stories
  • Fake

• I am my own secretary; I dictate, I compose, I copy all myself.

  

  Venerable Bede
  • Copy
  • Secretary
  • Dictate

• The classification of facts, the recognition of their sequence and relative significance is the function of science, and the habit of forming a judgment upon these facts unbiassed by personal feeling is characteristic of what may be termed the scientific frame of mind.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Mind
  • May
  • Science

• I like my song-sequences in my movies, but one of the things I like about them, is I get in and I get out.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Song
  • Sequence

• The superior man sets his person at rest before he moves; he composes his mind before he speaks.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Moves
  • Compose

• Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings come down to just one end, and the tale of who we are is done.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Stories
  • Tales
  • Compose

• To tell about a drunken muzhik's beating his wife is incomparably harder than to compose a whole tract about the 'woman question.'

  

  Ivan Turgenev
  • Question
  • Wife
  • Compose

• I always begin to compose the melody first.

  

  Nobuo Uematsu The Black Mages
  • Melody
  • Compose

• Between the action sequences, the pleasure lies in observing impeccably dressed Brits exchanging barbed witticisms - making it, basically, Downton Abbey with cyber crime and shower sex.

  

  Karina Longworth
  • Action
  • Pleasure
  • Observing

• In Africa through the 1990s, with notable exceptions in Senegal and Uganda, nearly all the ruling powers denied they had a problem with AIDS.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Problem
  • Africa
  • Exceptions

• In Europe, nothing is certain except death and welfare, and why let the former get in the way of the latter?

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Why
  • Death
  • Certain

• Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything.

  

  Aristotle
  • Feelings
  • Actions
  • Moral Virtue

• Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Sequence
  • Compose
  • Metronome