Technique is the test of sincerity.
EZRA POUNDReal education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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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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Wars are made to make debt.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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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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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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