Ezra Pound Quotes

People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.

Ezra Pound

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: October 30, 1885 - November 1, 1972

Topics

LivePeopleIdeasFindBecauseBore

I had my own ups and downs in getting Indian citizenship. But, ultimately I got it and I am happy about it. I like India. My love is here. I am a proud Indian.

Adnan Sami

LoveI AmLove IsHappyProudIndia

Am I as experienced, or mature, or smart as others CEOs? No probably not, but there's something, I think, very useful about having a founder as the CEO.

Andrew Mason

SmartThinkMatureOthersSomething

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Jean-Paul Sartre

LifeDespairSideBeginsOther

As a prosecutor, I've been in prisons. I've had the opportunity to see what they're like in America.

Tom Rooney

OpportunityAmericaSeeBeenLike

I grew up in Florida in different cities. I was born in Mississippi. My parents moved a lot, so I moved to Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Virginia, all through the South. But my family's roots were from central Florida, like Daytona Beach area, so we ended up moving there.

Diplo

FamilyBeachParentsRootsMoving

History is not reassuring on the subject of the longevity of seemingly lasting great nations, is it?

Dick Cavett

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Think about George Orwell's three-minute hate from the novel '1984' and how that left everyone sort of exhausted and able to live their boring humdrum lives. If our lives are going to continue being unfulfilled and boring, perhaps we do need some sort of short-term violent chaos incorporated into them, to make them more palatable.

Chuck Palahniuk

LiveHateChaosThinkBoringNeed

I think the beauty and mystery of boxing is just the immediacy of how it reveals people unlike anything else.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

BeautyPeopleThinkMysteryBoxing

I always thought it was funny that my grandparents had bought a ticket to New York and ended up in Glasgow.

Peter Capaldi

FunnyNew YorkThoughtNewAlways

The dilemma I have is that everything I do at work is all about me, and at what point is that selfish? I'm just talking and singing about myself, or I'm standing on a stage and hoping that everybody likes me. Obviously, it's also about the music and feeling and connecting; I know it's deeper than that.

Sharon Van Etten

WorkMusicMyselfMeSingingKnow

I will work for Tina Fey forever.

Tituss Burgess

WorkWillForeverTinaFeyTina Fey

The policies on the Republican side have been much better for Hispanics, for minorities, but the rhetoric, unfortunately, has not.

Mario Diaz-Balart

BetterRhetoricRepublicanSideBeen

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