What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDAny damn fool can be spontaneous.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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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.
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