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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Ezra Pound

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

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