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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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