Ezra Pound Quotes

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

Ezra Pound

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• It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • Worry

• I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Time
  • Reading
  • Child

• I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.

  

  Karen Morley
  • King
  • Popular
  • Daily

• My most annoying habit is complaining about my aches and pains. It's the new ones that I haven't identified yet that make me nervous. According to my wife, I complain way too much. I may be a borderline hypochondriac, or you could say I am fascinated by the body - at least by mine.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Wife
  • Body
  • Complain

• I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Science
  • Science fiction

• Dancing was one of the hobbies my brother and I had when we were kids, and dance ended up being the one that stuck. I dropped everything else until that was what was left in the end.

  

  Damian Woetzel
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Dance

• Well, I think again, the worst part of it was just leading up to it, before we got on set, at least for me... dreading this idea that I was just going to suck and I really had strong feelings about that. I just didn't want to be that weak link.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Think
  • Want
  • Strong

• Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • Love
  • For Her
  • For Him

• Foo, a beautiful gal wastes her time gracin' up this swamp.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Up
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• The wind which passes through the skins of animals will make men leap up:-That is the bagpipes, which cause men to dance.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Up
  • Men
  • Dance

• Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss

• Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.

  

  Pliny the Elder
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Challenge

• I had fun doing a lot of low-budget movies and web series. And I got back into stand-up where I started.

  

  Mary Lynn Rajskub
  • Up
  • Fun

• Health care has to be delivered as an integrated service across the entire continuum of care. This runs from healthy living and prevention to diagnosis and treatment and recovery and homecare.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Health
  • Service
  • Recovery

• Ever since Adam's day, the divine law of the Sabbath has been emphasized repeatedly over the centuries more than any other commandment. This long emphasis alone is an indication of its importance.

  

  James E. Faust
  • Long
  • Law
  • Alone

• Food is my thing, I do not smoke or drink, so food is my vice.

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Food

• I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.

  

  Jane Wiedlin
  • Energy

• My father's a deacon, my mother's a choir director, so I grew up in the church and singing in the choir, begging my mom if I could have a solo.

  

  Keke Palmer
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Father

• I had the luck of having an obedient body.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • Luck

• I always hated the part when I had to look pretty. I love that I don't have to look pretty.

  

  Marsha Mason
  • Pretty

• The first word gives origin to the second, the first and second to the third, and the third to the fourth, and so on. You cannot begin with the second word.

  

  N. Scott Momaday

• MoMA is doubling its space, and I decided to raise the money for it.

  

  David Rockefeller
  • Money
  • Space

• I can no more think of my own life without thinking of wine and wines and where they grew for me and why I drank them when I did and why I picked the grapes and where I opened the oldest procurable bottles, and all that, than I can remember living before I breathed.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Why

• If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Money
  • Artist
  • Needs