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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Ezra Pound

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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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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Build Money Pursue State
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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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