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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Ezra Pound

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

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