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

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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. – Ezra Pound

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

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He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes. – Thomas Babington Macaulay

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