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Ezra Pound

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis

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