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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Ezra Pound

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
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
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
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

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