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

Ezra Pound

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing

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

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