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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

Ezra Pound

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading

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