The Cantos Quotes

#1. 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

#2. Prophecies do not alter fate, only confirm it.

Bette Lord

#3. Appreciate the creation, respect the creator of it, and admire the source of all creativity.

T.F. Hodge

#4. The intellectual power, honesty, lucidity, courage, and disinterested love of the truth of the most gifted thinkers of the eighteenth century remain to this day without parallel. Their age is one of the best and most hopeful episodes in the life of mankind.

Isaiah Berlin

#5. But truth is not the only merit that a metaphysic can possess. It may have beauty, and this is certainly to be found in Plotinus; there are passages that remind one of the later cantos of Dante's Para- diso, and of almost nothing else in literature. Now

Bertrand Russell

#6. Most critics agree with the seventeenth-century printer who gave them to the world, that the Mutabilitie Cantos seem to be part of some following book of The Faerie Queene.

Janet Spens

#7. Very successful people say no to almost everything.

Warren Buffett

#8. I just want my music to be put out there, not shoved in people's faces. I want to keep it relaxed.

Iwan Rheon

#9. You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.

Tom Dreesen

#10. Thy hand bestows blessings: Thy power averts evil. I

Anonymous

#11. Literature is a human apocalypse, man's revelation to man, and criticism is not a body of adjudications, but the awareness of that revelation, the last judgement of mankind.

Northrop Frye

#12. Artists hide their identities in the brushstrokes of their paintings, the verses in their cantos, and the sentences in their novels. The true face of an artist is never on his face and this is what he prefers. Others misunderstand this displaced melancholy with an absence of melancholy.

Bruce Crown

#13. People who don't vote have no call on political leaders!

Marian Wright Edelman

#14. The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.

Alecko Eskandarian

#15. Life is brutal that way ... the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

Dan Simmons

#16. He was your usual man when it came to romance, which is to say he couldn't recite Baa Baa Black Sheep when sober, whereas when drunk, sixteen cantos of Byron's Don Juan was par for the course.

Tyne O'Connell

#17. Your belief is as important as your physical strength. You need to believe in yourself and in your weapon both. Doubt is the enemy. Hesitation is potentially fatal." Sebec

Terry Brooks

#18. I'm not in a contest. I make movies. I'm not a racehorse ...

George Lucas

#19. Without dreams life is a desert

Richard Paul Evans

#20. Stars scribble on our eyes the frosty sagas, The gleaming cantos of unvanquished space. (Cape Hatteras

Hart Crane