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.

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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?

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • World
  • God
  • Nature

• When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Home
  • Want
  • Person

• I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Know
  • Restaurant

• 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.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Silver
  • Secretary
  • Empower

• 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.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • Time
  • Party

• Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Yourself
  • Find

• As a kid, my grandma would be dancing all the time.

  

  Victor Cruz
  • Time
  • Dancing
  • Grandma

• Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Crazy
  • Media
  • Lights

• 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.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Up
  • Great
  • May

• I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Fun
  • Desert
  • Ferrari

• A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Desire
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • May
  • Fool
  • Fly

• A great revolution is hardest of all on the great revolutionists.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Great
  • Revolution

• Internal improvement and the diffusion of knowledge, so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the Federal Government, are of high importance.

  

  Andrew Jackson
  • High
  • Knowledge
  • Improvement

• Mexico holds the fifth-largest shale gas reserve in the world, in addition to large deep-water oil reserves and a tremendous potential in renewable energy.

  

  Enrique Pena Nieto
  • World
  • Energy
  • Water

• I am just a beginner. The two films so far are baby steps. If I develop an attitude, I'll be finished even before I've started. Besides, if I started misbehaving, my folks would give me a tight slap.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Baby
  • Attitude

• Think about it: Reducing crime and poverty and ensuring that we have an educated, stable work force has a direct effect on you and me and the future of our country.

  

  Jane Fonda
  • Work
  • Country
  • Future

• The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.

  

  Bernie Sanders

• I'm a very philanthropically oriented individual. There are a lot of causes that I support, and I'm a big fan of advocacy.

  

  Brandon Victor Dixon
  • Support

• Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • World
  • Character

• Teachers teach and students educate. Students are the only true educators. Historically, every other method of education has failed. Education occurs when students get excited about learning and apply themselves; students do this when they experience great teachers.

  

  Oliver DeMille
  • Great
  • Experience
  • True

• I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Age
  • Education
  • Learning

• What are books but folly, and what is an education but an arrant hypocrisy, and what is art but a curse when they touch not the heart and impel it not to action?

  

  Louis Sullivan
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Education

• 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.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Nature
  • Learning
  • Generation