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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Pound

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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 only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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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Energy Ideas Image
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk

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