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The only history that matters is the history we know.

Ezra Pound

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right

The only history that matters is the history we know.

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