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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Image
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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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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees. – Victor Hugo

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Real men are sadly lacking in this world, for when they are put to the test they prove worthless. – Franz Liszt

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The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves. – George Washington

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Few things are impracticable in themselves and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Star Trek fans usually know the metaphors of life better than most mainstream poets. – Terri Guillemets

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On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldnt observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer. – Bobby Seale

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Its cool to be recognised by your peers. – Frank Ocean

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There has never been an unexpectedly short debugging period in the history of computers. – Steven Levy

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