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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Ezra Pound

Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
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
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround

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