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

Ezra Pound

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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

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

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