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Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible

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