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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Ezra Pound

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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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain

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