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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Pound

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste

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