If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
EZRA POUNDThe 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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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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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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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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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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Rhythm must have meaning.
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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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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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