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.
EZRA POUNDThe sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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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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Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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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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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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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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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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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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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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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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