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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Ezra Pound

A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich

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