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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

Ezra Pound

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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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.

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