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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
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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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself

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