Ezra Pound Quotes

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Ezra Pound

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• Do not say, 'It is morning,' and dismiss it with a name of yesterday. See it for the first time as a newborn child that has no name.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Child

• My father instilled in me - of utmost importance and innate in me is the yearning to determine for myself - to define God, to define holiness for myself.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • God
  • Father
  • Myself

• Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.

  

  Katha Pollitt
  • Party
  • Christian
  • Dog

• We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Today
  • Yesterday
  • Myths

• If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • Friends
  • Way
  • Connections

• We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Rock And Roll

• It's the thing I struggle with every day: the mental diligence and stamina needed to sit in front of the computer, open the file, start writing and to keep doing so, word after word, until I've created the next story. A combination of learning disability and chronic health issues make that the hardest thing for me.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Writing
  • Health
  • Day

• 'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Favorite
  • Novels
  • George

• You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • You
  • Yourself
  • Moment

• Read books. They are good for us.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Good
  • Books
  • U.S.

• I remember very well, when I was at Oxford, an old gentleman said to me, 'Young man, ply your book diligently now, and acquire a stock of knowledge; for when years come upon you, you will find that poring upon books will be but an irksome task.'

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Knowledge

• The issue Israeli-Palestinian conflict, already lasting more than half a century, has brought deep suffering to the Palestinian people and remains an important reason of extended turbulence in the Middle East region.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • People
  • Important
  • Suffering

• Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life

• Like all boys my age, I was an idiot when it came to women.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Women
  • Age

• Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.

  

  Snoop Dogg

• Particular individuals who might never consider dropping out if they were in a different high school might decide to drop out if they attended a school where many boys and girls did so.

  

  James S. Coleman
  • Different
  • School
  • High

• Bonobos are not monkeys! Bonobos are apes.

  

  Andy Dunn

• Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.

  

  Amanda de Cadenet
  • Men
  • Women

• I always find something to keep me busy.

  

  Amy Sedaris

• If my eyebrows are cool, if my eyeliner is popping, if I'm moisturized, then I can pretty much wear whatever I want. I think if your hair and your face are together, I think it's pretty much polished!

  

  Kehlani
  • Together
  • Pretty
  • Cool

• It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even 'realities'; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a 'solitary elephant.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• I think of it this way: When you hear that people have downloaded your comic, appreciate that thousands are eager to hear what you have to say. The poetry club down the hall may not have the same problem. That's a good problem to have.

  

  Mark Waid
  • People
  • Good
  • May

• The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Poetry
  • Image
  • Pigment