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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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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people. – Ezra Pound

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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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

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And let a scholar all earths volumes carry, he will be but a walking dictionary: a mere articulate clock. – George Chapman

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A heresy can spring only from a system that is in full vigor. – Eric Hoffer

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