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Ezra Pound

Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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