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.
EZRA POUNDThe sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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The only history that matters is the history we know.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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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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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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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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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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