"What counts is the cultural level"

-- Ezra Pound

#Culture Quotes

“The bridges that you cross before you come to them are over rivers that aren't there.”
“I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature,”

Source : John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.16, Macmillan
“Going out across the desert I remember the feelings that you have, wondering if you're going to make it out alive. Right now I wonder what that was all about. What was the point of all of that? I don't think there's any appetite from the American people to go back and do our work twice.”
“If you don't have a way to speak to ordinary Americans, you're not in the game.”
“Depending on where you live and how you travel - whether you drive or bus or whatever - your experiences may be different. But I think that theme will be the same.”
“I do believe that the Kurds are in a difficult situation. They do have some American support. How consistent that will be is unclear. But they have built up a strong military, and they have begun to build the institutions of an autonomous life in Northern Syria. Turkey's enmity towards the Kurds and their desire to make sure there is no independent Kurdish state or even really autonomous enclave is going to push the Kurds into Bashar Assad's hands over time.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Find combinations of flavors you love and buy the best quality ingredients you can afford. Your food is only going to be as good as the sum of its parts, like anything else.”
“It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of his instrument with an internal sense of rightness - it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.”

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