When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
EZRA POUNDThe artist is always beginning.
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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 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 only history that matters is the history we know.
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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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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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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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