Ezra Pound's Quote - Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rig

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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Religion, oh, just another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art. – Ezra Pound

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Music rots when it gets too far from the dance. Poetry atrophies when it gets too far from music. – Ezra Pound

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A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher. – Johann von Goethe

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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

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

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

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