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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.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading

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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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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