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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.

Ezra Pound

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk

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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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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