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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Ezra Pound

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing

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