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.
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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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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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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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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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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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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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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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