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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

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 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
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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way

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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