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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Ezra Pound

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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 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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter

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