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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

All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
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
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
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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 worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol

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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