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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

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted

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