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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.

Ezra Pound

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
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
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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

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