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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.

Ezra Pound

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism

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