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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Ezra Pound

Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
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
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning 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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
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
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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