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

Ezra Pound

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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 artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing

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