What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDWhen words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Either move or be moved.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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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.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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