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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.

Ezra Pound

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
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
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

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