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Ezra Pound

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

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