The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
EZRA POUNDThe sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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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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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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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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