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Ezra Pound

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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
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
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
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
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
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
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

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