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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
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
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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 only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known

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