Ezra Pound Quotes

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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• I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Home
  • America
  • Parents

• I want to be adopted by the French. I want to go to live in Paris.

  

  Asia Argento
  • Live
  • Paris
  • French

• In every study we've done, fuel cells surface as the most promising long-term pathway for the industry -- even if you use fossil fuels, like natural gas, as the source of hydrogen.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Long
  • Done
  • Study

• Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Gross National Product

• Science without discrimination Human existence without discipline Friendship without gratitude Music without melody A society without morality and justice Cannot be of benefit to the people.

  

  Sai Baba
  • People
  • Music
  • Society

• One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Mother
  • Forgiveness

• He has had to make a few adjustments. He sacrifices himself for the team.

  

  Vanderlei Luxemburgo
  • Team
  • Sacrifices
  • Adjustments

• Proper listening is the foundation of proper living.

  

  Plutarch
  • Listening
  • Living
  • Foundation

• I, also, would like to look and smile, sit and walk like that, so free, so worthy, so restrained, so candid, so childlike and mysterious. A man only looks and walks like that when he has conquered his Self. I also will conquer my Self.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Free
  • Smile
  • Self

• A decade is a long time to be doing anything, much less to be with the same guys, chasing after the same goals.

  

  Mike Shinoda Linkin Park
  • Goals
  • Guys
  • Chasing

• Like Tom Dorrance said, ‘It boiled down to one thing: observe, remember, and compare.’ Do something, observe what you did, remember what you did, compare it to what you were doing before, and adjust.

  

  Buck Brannaman
  • Tom Dorrance

• I like talking to anyone that will listen.

  

  Lewis Capaldi
  • Talking
  • Listen

• Days and moments quickly flying, Blend the living with the dead; Soon will you and I be lying Each within our narrow bed.

  

  Edward Caswall
  • Dead
  • Bed
  • Blend

• Now that I was surrounded by admiration, I could admit without uneasiness that talking to her incited ideas, pushed me to make connections between distant things. In those years of being neighbors, I on the floor above, she below, it often happened. A slight push was enough and the seemingly empty mind discovered that it was full and lively. I attributed to her a sort of farsightedness, as I had all our lives, and I found nothing wrong with it. I said to myself that to be adult was to recognize that I needed her impulses. If once I had hidden, even from myself, that spark she induced in me, now I was proud of it, I had even written about it somewhere. I was I and for that very reason I could make space for her in me and give her an enduring form. She instead didn’t want to be her, so she couldn’t do the same. That was the underlying cause of the illness that she called “dissolving boundaries.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Proud
  • Ideas
  • Recognize

• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Definition
  • Surrounded
  • Lunatic