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Ezra Pound

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
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
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
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet

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