To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is the antenna of the race.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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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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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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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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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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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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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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