A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
EZRA POUNDIf a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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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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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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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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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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