I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
EZRA POUNDSeems 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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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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