Ezra Pound Quotes
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
Ezra Pound
Quotes to Explore
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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
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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
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
Harold S. Geneen
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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
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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
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
Zooey Deschanel
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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
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Read books. They are good for us.
Natalie Goldberg
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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
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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
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Of course it was cause and effect, but in the necessity with which follows the other lay all tragedy of life.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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
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I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to make us aware of our potential. We have to create an art for liberation and for life.
Elizabeth Catlett
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Twitter is a place where you share your thoughts, yourself... you don't want a plain white backdrop for that. You want the entire page to say something about who you are. Designer or not, if the urge strikes you, go for it. Put up that watercolor you've never shown anyone. Take a photo of that hat you just knitted... whatever it is, share it.
Nate Berkus
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Insurance companies don't make anything.
James Dyson
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
Felix Dennis
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
Yiannis Chryssomallis
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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
Ezra Pound
