Great Throughts Treasury

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Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

Hang it all, Robert Browning, there can be but the one "Sordello."

Language | Literature | Meaning |

Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.

Good | Language | Wants |

Gustave Flaubert

She cast her eyes about her, longing for the earth to open up. Why not end it all? What was holding her back? She was free to act. And she moved forward. "Do it! Do it!" she ordered herself, peering down at the pavement.

Language | Wise |

Haile Selassie

I assert that the problem submitted to the Assembly today is a much wider one. It is not merely a question of the settlement of Italian aggression.

Language |

Italian Proverbs

The bell does not go to mass, and yet calls every one to it.

Good | Language |

Italian Proverbs

The shadow of a lord is a cap for a fool.

Language | People | Words |

Italian Proverbs

Who would have many friends let him test but few.

Battle | God | Kill | Language | Wills | God |

Ivan Krastev

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions; transparency is politics' management of mistrust.

Cult | Language | Myth | Paradise | People | Reality | Religion | Sense | Story | World |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren.

Art | Heart | Language | Religion | Art |