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

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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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will. – Ezra Pound

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Poetry
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations. – Ezra Pound

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Age
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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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Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs. – Walter Lippmann

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Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread. – Richard Wright

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Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving. – Henry Ford

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First you forget names, then you forget faces, then you forget to pull your zipper up, then you forget to pull your zipper down. – Leo Rosenberg

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The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it. – Robert Caro

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Nature is not benevolent: with ruthless indifference she makes all things serve their purposes… – Laozi, as quoted in The Wisdom of the East: The Sayings of Lao Tzŭ, transla

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