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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

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst

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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