Ezra Pound Quotes
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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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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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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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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Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority. They are the self-imposed restraints of a whole people upon a majority of them to secure sober action and a respect for the rights of the minority.
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Things are different in the international relations between states. In this respect, I am neither a friend, nor bride or groom [of the West].
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Every time I go to the market, Andy says, 'Don't forget the Triscuits!'
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How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?
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When the province of physical theory was extended to encompass microscopic phenomena through the creation of quantum mechanics, the concept of consciousness came to the fore again. It was not possible to formulate the laws of quantum mechanics in a fully consistent way without reference to the consciousness.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
