The only history that matters is the history we know.
EZRA POUNDUntil 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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One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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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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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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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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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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