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What thou lovest well remains.

Ezra Pound

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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious

What thou lovest well remains.

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