A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUNDThe sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Technique is the test of sincerity.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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