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Ezra Pound Quotes: The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
         

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.


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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.



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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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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.



Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.



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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.



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.

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.



The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world.



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All great art is born of the metropolis.



'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!



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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.





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If Churchill recommends optimism, who are you or I to quibble?



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