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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Ezra Pound

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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

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