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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The act of bellringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people. – Ezra Pound

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Religion
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It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. – Ezra Pound

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Art
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant. – Confucius

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. He is the worlds eye. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

People often become scholars for the same reason they become soldiers: simply because they are unfit for any other station. Their right hand has to earn them a livelihood; one might say they lie down like bears in winter and seek sustenance from their paws. – G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenberg

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. Thats what sitting on your ass does to your face. – Leonard Cohen

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Obscurity is the realm of error. – Marquis De Vauvenargues

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Obscurity

Life without a friend is death without a witness. – Proverb

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Solitude

A lot of the music that you listen to now is because of the things that the Meters did, the Neville Brothers did, and theyre there, the guys who invented those beats that the guys sample today. Such an enormous opportunity. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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Music

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Driving