Ezra Pound Quotes
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
Quotes to Explore
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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With TV, you get on a show and you're there for 11 years playing the same character. I would pull my hair out. Yes, the money is good. But I'm really not in this business to chase dollars.
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
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I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.
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On Friday, June 12, 1992, 110 heads of state gathered at Riocentro. They were indistinguishable in dress and deportment. Where was biodiversity when we needed it?
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We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace.
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It has been said that the sin of ingratitude is more serious than the sin of revenge. With revenge, we return evil for evil, but with ingratitude, we return evil for good.
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I never got a pass mark in math... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. Funny me consorting with all these learned folks, as though I were their long lost brother. I guess they are unaware of the fact that I am ignorant about the whole thing.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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History is one damn thing after another.
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Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.
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For all we take we must pay, but the price is cruel high.
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For each ecstatic instant We must an anguish pay In keen and quivering ratio To the ecstasy.
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There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
