Quotesia
Home
Authors
Popular authors
Judy Garland
George Chapman
Charles Lindbergh
Ugo Betti
Swami Vivekananda
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All authors
Today's birthdays
1902 - Langston Hughes
1787 - Richard Whately
1975 - Big Boi
1969 - Andrew Breitbart
1931 - Boris Yeltsin
1960 - Cindy Gallop
Today's birthdays
Popular professions
Businesswoman
Activist
Designer
Mathematician
Astronaut
Psychologist
All professions
Authors by letter
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
All authors
Topics
Top Quotes
Quotesia
Ezra Pound Quotes
Ezra Pound quote
Ezra Pound quote
Previous quote
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
Ezra Pound
Facebook
Twitter
Vkontakte
Tumblr
Reddit
Ezra Pound
American
Poet
Born:
Oct 30
,
1885
Died:
Nov 1
,
1972
Topics
Definite
,
Exactly
,
Ability
,
Proportional
,
Writers
,
Main
,
Does
,
Exist
,
Literature
,
Social
,
Use
,
Function
,
Vacuum
Links
Cite this page:
Citation
Related Authors
Edgar Allan Poe
,
Emily Dickinson
,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
,
Maya Angelou
,
Ralph Waldo Emerson
,
Robert Frost
,
T. S. Eliot
,
Walt Whitman
The Cantos of Ezra Pound (New Directions Paperbook)
on Amazon
Buy now
Quotes To Explore
I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
Brene Brown
Love
Good
Trust
Creativity
Joy
Black
Black And White
Important
Few
White
Spent
Those
Definite
Bad
Uncertainty
Outrun
Name
Lean
Wrought
Vulnerability
Limited
Discomfort
Making
Years
Lot
Trying
Experiences
Inability
Good And Bad
Certain
Fullness
Things
Belonging
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics
Sometimes
Subscribe
Everyone
Our
Say
Definite
Something
Shall
Generalities
Always
Go
Up
Very
Wonder
Whether
Which
Little
Mean
Using
Grow
Grow Up
Ever
Things
Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.
Leo Tolstoy
Happiness
Life
Service
People
Joy
Definite
Be Real
Object
Only
Outside
Look
Real
Personal
Themselves
Qualities you need to get through medical school and residency: Discipline. Patience. Perseverance. A willingness to forgo sleep. A penchant for sadomasochism. Ability to weather crises of faith and self-confidence. Accept exhaustion as fact of life. Addiction to caffeine a definite plus. Unfailing optimism that the end is in sight.
Khaled Hosseini
Life
Faith
You
Patience
Perseverance
School
Discipline
Weather
Addiction
Definite
Sight
Crises
Willingness
Ability
Plus
Fact
Through
Self-Confidence
Caffeine
Qualities
Accept
Exhaustion
End
Optimism
Get
Forgo
Residency
Medical
Medical School
Need
Sleep
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
Maturity
Awareness
Symptom
Definite
Highest
Failures
Well
Ambiguity
Achievements
Deepest
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
Carl Jung
Darkness
Evil
Understanding
Definite
Comprehensible
Does
Cure
Inasmuch
Help
Cope
I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life - I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen.
Daniel Radcliffe
Life
Nature
You
Chapter
Changing
Way
Those
Definite
Both
Through
Exciting
Suppose
Know
Also
Periods
Because
Always
Go
Very
Times
Going
Closing
Whenever
Upsetting
Happen
Transition
Certain
Your
Things
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold J. Toynbee
Overcome
Enthusiasm
First
Practice
Imagination
Definite
Carrying
Only
Takes
Ideal
Aroused
Intelligible
Storm
Apathy
Plan
Things
Second
Two
A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
W. E. B. Du Bois
Education
Training
School
Matter
Walls
Men
Single
Definite
System
One Thing
Object
Mere
Develops
House
Schools
Within
Without
Does
Nor
Human
Which
Whole
Thing
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
Charles Bukowski
Matter
Alive
Definite
Stay
Magic
Talent
Trade
How
Largely
More quotes?
Try another of these similiar topics.
Definite
Exactly
Ability
Proportional