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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

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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
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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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation

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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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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