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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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