America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
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Aphorisms by Ezra Pound (Ezra Weston Loomis Pound)
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Art)
Good art however immoral is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can not be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
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The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I realized that I knew nothing, yes, I knew nothing. And so words became void of meaning. I have arrived too late at ultimate uncertainty.
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It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
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You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Books)
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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