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Ezra Pound

Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
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
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
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself

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