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"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."
"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible."
"Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again."
"Tel Aviv is new, built on the sand dunes north of Jaffa in the 1890s, about the same time Miami was founded. The cities bear a resemblance in size, site, climate, and architecture, which ranges from the bland to the fancifully bland."
"Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps."
"There isn't a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights."
"Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England."
Explore more quotes by Ezra Pound
"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."
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
"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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
"If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval."
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