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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

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