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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

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
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
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
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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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself

All great art is born of the metropolis.

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