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Ezra Pound

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word

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