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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

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World

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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