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

Ezra Pound

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight

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

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