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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.

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