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Quote by Ezra Pound
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rig

Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man. – 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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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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Erudition. Dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull. – Ambrose Bierce

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There mark what ills the scholars life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron. – Samuel Johnson

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I cannot forgive a scholar his homeless despondency. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Im a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen. – J. M. Synge

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