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The artist is always beginning.

Ezra Pound

Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown

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