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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.

Ezra Pound

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
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
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
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
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake

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