Ezra Pound's Quote - Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of li

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

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Religion

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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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Heresy

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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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Ezra Pound

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