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"Hawaii has always been a very pivotal role in the Pacific. It is in the Pacific. It is a part of the United States that is an island that is right here."
"Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks."
"In America the most widespread type of forest is the evergreen coniferous woodland of the north."
"A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas."
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
"Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England."
"Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch."
Explore more quotes by Ezra Pound
"But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY."
"The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting."
"Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding."
"Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value."
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
"A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values."
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