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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

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
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
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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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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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Better Finding Mental Myself

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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