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"I do not play this instrument so well as I should wish to, but I have always supposed that to be my own fault because I would not take the trouble of practicing."
"Ultimately, nobody can get more out of things, including books, than he already knows."
"Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions."
"You need to study all the details of how you can achieve your goal."
"It is necessary to learn to turn your falls and misfortunes into God's power and might in orderto have prosperity."
"To submit one's self to one's gift is to submit oneself to education and self-development and to devote enough time to improve one's gift."
"God wants every Christian to avoid and not repeat the mistakes of the Israelites."
"It was a lesson that I would learn in time though it wasn't Hegbert who taught me."
Explore more quotes by Ezra Pound
"Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it."
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
"If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point."
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
"The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people."
"Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise."
"Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
"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."
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