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  • Ezra Pound The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Augustus Baldwin Longstreet The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two.
    Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
    American lawyer, minister, educator, and humorist (1790 - 1870)
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  • Ezra Pound The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • B. C. Forbes The person who renders loyal service in a humble capacity will be chosen for higher responsibilities, just as the biblical servant who multiplied the one pound given him by his master was made ruler over ten cities...
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Ezra Pound The real meditation is... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound Wars are made to make debt.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Ezra Pound With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Ezra Pound You let me throw the bricks through the front window. You go in at the back and take the swag.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Thomas Fuller An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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