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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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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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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight. – Ezra Pound

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Change
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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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Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. – Marcus Aurelius

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Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isnt every war fought between men, between brothers? – Victor Hugo

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If I err in belief that the souls of men are immortal, I gladly err, nor do I wish this error which gives me pleasure to be wrested from me while I live. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. – Thomas Hobbes

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I desire not to desire, for my will is without value, since I am ignorant in any case. Therefore choose Thou for me what thou knowest to be best and do not put my perdition in what my autonomy and free choice prefer. – Bayazid Al-Bistami

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Women are aristocrats, and it is always the mother who makes us feel that we belong to the better sort. – John Lancaster Spalding

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I loved climbing because of the freedom, and having time and space. I remember coming off Everest for the last time, thinking of Dad and wishing that he could have seen what I saw. He would have loved it. – Bear Grylls

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