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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Ezra Pound

Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
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

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