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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – Ezra Pound

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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? – Ezra Pound

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Fascism
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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

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. – Henry David Thoreau

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

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The sound of the rain needs no translation. – Alan Watts

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One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken. – Leo Tolstoy

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Ive got the greatest job in the world. Theres no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different peoples lives. Its a great challenge. – Michael Bloomberg

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Ive had Susan Sarandon play my mom, and now Lesley Ann Warren has played my mom, so if I could have Debra Winger play my mom, then I would have the trifecta of my favorite actresses playing my mother. – Jenna Fischer

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