Ezra Pound Cantos Quotes & Sayings

A Way Out
Do you know what it is like to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt you every night, of all your past mistakes.
Knowing sleep will set it right - if you were not to wake. — Lang Leav

Slogans are mere wordsuck... — Gabriel Thy

Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake? — Steve Maraboli

It shouldn't be so complicated," she begins, "to want to kiss you and just do it even where people can see. — Six De Los Reyes

But recently I've, the past few years, I'm more focused on meditation. It's not a physical part. It's more mental part, to understand life. — Jet Li

One of the things that was really influential early on was Ezra Pound's Cantos, one poem he worked on for 50 years. It's epic. I had a great deal of difficulty understanding it. One of the problems was you'd be reading along in English and he would move to a Chinese ideogram or French-he actually used seven different languages in a given poem. And for somebody who's not fluent in different languages it has the impact of rupturing your way of understanding something. — Richard Misrach

Maharishikas Gargi and Maitreyi were rishikas, and today there are fools who claim that women are not to be allowed to study the scriptures or to write new ones. — Amish Tripathi

Stop calling me that!' Haley hissed softly. 'For the hundredth time, i am not the Daniel-Son to your Mr. Miyagi. — R.L. Mathewson

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House. — Maureen Dowd

I like castles almost as much as I like museums. Centuries of bloodshed and betrayal and heartache, all under one roof. You just don't get history like that back home — Kelley Armstrong

I had written my master's thesis on Ezra Pound on 'The Cantos.' And don't ask me about it. I don't remember anything about it. — Sally Mann

I've been in situations like in Tokyo where people sang my song word for word and then when the music stopped, they couldn't speak to me. I've seen the music break the language barrier. — Curtis Jackson

I've done stand-up since I was 18 years old, and I absolutely love it, but I used to go onstage, and the audience was my peers. Now I go onstage, and I could be their mother. — Judy Gold

It would be easier to get a computer to cry than to get Estonians to share their innermost feelings. — Lembit Opik

Two words: Love leads. Listen to that ring of love within. If we follow that leading of love we'll be guaranteed an adventurous, positive, joyful life. — Richard Bach