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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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