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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.

Ezra Pound

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth

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