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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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
For a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
Criticism | Literature | Seclusion | Will |
Ezra Pound, fully Ezra Weston Loomis Pound
Image—that which presents an intellectual and emotional complex in an instant of time.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under all governments, insofar as they survive at all, by special classes of fanatics, often highly dubious.
Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
No government, of its own motion, will increase its own weakness, for that would mean to acquiesce in its own destruction... governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. It?s one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.
Evil | Man | Pleasure | Understanding |
J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can.
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