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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent

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