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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

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme

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