The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
EZRA POUNDA great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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