"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

Power, Light, Man, Reading

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"You create your world with your thoughts."

Rhonda Byrne, Australian Author

Power, Thought, Creation, Mind

"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."

George R. R. Martin, American Author

Power, Perception, Control, Illusion

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

Peter L. Berger, Austrian Sociologist

Power, Possibility, Economy, State

"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power."

Julian Casablancas, American Musician

Power, Religion, People, Gain

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

Edward Gibbon, English Historian

Power,

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

Viktor E. Frankl, Austrian Psychologist

Power, Growth, Freedom, Lies

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Power, Self-Confidence, Strength, Mind

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

Charles Simmons, American Author

Power, Determination

"Television has tremendous power over our lives."

Julie Nixon Eisenhower, American Celebrity

Power, Television

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."

John Quincy Adams, American President

Power, People, Maxim

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"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."

Art

"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."

Worth

"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."

Art

"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."

Wrong

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."

Art

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

Language

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."

Music

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"You create your world with your thoughts."

"Power is a trick. It lies where we believe it lies."

"In a market economy, however, the individual has some possibility of escaping from the power of the state."

"Religion is never the problem; it's the people who use it to gain power."

"But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous."

"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."

"Self-courage, Self-confidence, Self-will!"

"Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power."

"Television has tremendous power over our lives."

"Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of any people."

Explore more quotes by Ezra Pound

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

"Literature is news that stays news."

"All great art is born of the metropolis."

"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."

"I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible."

"Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man."

"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."

"Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture."

"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."

"Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance... poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music."