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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

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
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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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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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Energy Ideas Image
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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

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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