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Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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 concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value

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