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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Ezra Pound

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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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General Meet Statement Value
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand

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