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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as s

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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

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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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We make a mistake forsaking England and moving out into the periphery of life. After all, Taormina, Ceylon, Africa, America — as far as we go, they are only the negation of what we ourselves stand for and are: and were rather like Jonahs running away from the place we belong. – D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

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The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner. – Italo Calvino

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If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land. – Henry James

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It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. – Joseph Brodsky

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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows. – J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist. – Olive Schreiner

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Teaching is leaving a vestige of one self in the development of another. And surely the student is a bank where you can deposit your most precious treasures. – Eugene P. Bertin

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