I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open … - Ezra Pound

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

Ezra Pound

I once saw a small child go to an electric light switch as say, Mamma, can I open the light? She was using the age-old language of exploration, the language of art.

Art, Child, Children, Electric, Light, Small

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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron. . . . I should have been able to do better.

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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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My grandmother spent her whole life working as a maid, a cook and a babysitter, barely scraping by, but still working hard to give my mother, her only child, a chance in life, so that my mother could give my brother and me an even better one.

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In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

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Freedom is such a gift.

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It is worth repeating at this point the theories that Ford had come up with, on his first encounter with human beings, to account for their peculiar habit of continually stating and restating the very very obvious, as in "It's a nice day," or "You're very tall," or "So this is it, we're going to die. " His first theory was that if human beings didn't keep exercising their lips, their mouths probably shriveled up. After a few months of observation he had come up with a second theory, which was this--"If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, their brains start working.

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I go dreaming into the future, where I see nothing, nothing. I have no plans, no idea, no project, and, what is worse, no ambition. Something – the eternal ‘what’s the use?’ – sets its bronze barrier across every avenue that I open up in the realm of hypothesis.

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