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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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If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practised, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point. – Ezra Pound

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Heresy
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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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I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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

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

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

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

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