I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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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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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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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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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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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