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

Ezra Pound

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
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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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War

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