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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound

A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental 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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

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