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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’

Ezra Pound

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading

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