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

Other quotes by Ezra Pound

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. Its listed as part of the poetic training, you know. – Ezra Pound

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Trust
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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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AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN?? – Ezra Pound

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Most people know no other way of judging mens worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. – H. L. Mencken

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Men

The law will never make a man free it is men who have got to make the law free. – Henry David Thoreau

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To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. – Abraham Lincoln

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Never ask, “What reason do I have to be happy?” Instead ask, “To what purpose can I attach my happiness?” – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society. – Strom Thurmond

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If you have never said “Excuse me” to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. – Sherri Chasin Calvo

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Books

My theme is going to be: Together we can win the future. The right policies lead to the right results. And Im going to argue that President Obama will lose the future because the wrong policies lead to the wrong results. – Newt Gingrich

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