Ezra Pound Quotes
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.
Quotes to Explore
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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals?
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
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EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the United States Code would authorize or 'empower' the Secretary of the Treasury to issue Silver Certificates if the occasion should arise.
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I love Adele; she's a timeless, classic beauty. I think she's beautiful. She's just a real woman.
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I haven't chosen any party yet because people choose parties when they get older. When it's time, I'll look, and if I can't find one to join, I'll make another party.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.
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Why are numbers so important? I take up a film I like, give it my best, and move on.
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To stay true to your art is such a complicated journey, and Dad clearly has done it.
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I don't really care how I am remembered as long as I bring happiness and joy to people.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway.
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All is ask is that I get a heads up as soon as possible so I can lose this weight before I have to see people again.
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My favorite thing about guitar, and the thing that always drew me to it when I was first learning to play it, was those moments when you think you know what it might sound like, but you don't, and then you hit it, and it's a total surprise. You hear it with really fresh ears. Alternate tunings, for me, they give that back.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation, neither are they transmitted by book learning. The mystic tradition, any mystic tradition, is of a similar nature, that is, it is dependent on direct perception, a 'knowledge' as permanent as the faculty for receiving it.
