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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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy. – 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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Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts. – Max Lerner

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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do. – Dorothy Day

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We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Black men dont like to be called boys, but women accept being called girls. – Marilyn Monroe

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The poor have to labour in the face of the majestic equality of the law, which forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. – Anatole France

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