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

Ezra Pound

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
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
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent

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