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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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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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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage Whose world, or mine or theirs or is it of none? First came the seen, then thus the palpable Elysium, though it were in the halls of hell. What thou lovest well is thy true heritage.
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The book shd. be a ball of light in one's hand.
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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd Petals on a wet black bough.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
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