Ezra Pound Quotes
Poetry is about as much a 'criticism of life' as red-hot iron is a criticism of fire.
Ezra Pound
Quotes to Explore
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Not listening to people who care about you, not to be open or transparent, will make you isolated.
Ofra Strauss
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I'm learning to accept everything that I am. I've accepted that I'm not going to be a stick-thin-model kind of girl. When I was 14, I was tall and spindly. By the time I turned 18, I had become a woman, and my body's not going to go back to what it looked like when I was 14.
Mandy Moore
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'Ray Donovan' is very dark and very serious. As actors will tell you, the darker and more serious the material, the more jokes that go around set. It's a counterbalance.
Eddie Marsan
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
Fernando Pessoa
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There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning.
Tanith Lee
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In the face of a world where economic hardships often ground the best of the human spirit into the worst, love provided a pathway into hidden chambers of the spirit where nobility and compassion might be salvaged, resurrected, and made stronger.
Aberjhani
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He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.
C. S. Lewis
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I was weeping because Richard Parker left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch the farewell. I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things meaningful shape.
Yann Martel
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Prayer ardent opens heaven.
Edward Young
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If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.
Andrew Nikiforuk
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Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.
Stephen Fry
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It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.
Frederick Douglass
