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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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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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Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barbers wax dummy is to sculpture. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry
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I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic — I mean my motion. – Ezra Pound

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

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

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Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a persons power. – Josiah Gilbert Holland

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