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

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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. – Ezra Pound

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Literature
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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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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

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

A reading machine, always wound up and going, he mastered whatever was not worth the knowing. – James Russell Lowell

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

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Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me theyre just good. – Lee DeWyze

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During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. – Xi Jinping

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Life begins the day you start a garden. – Chinese Proverb

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