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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Ezra Pound

Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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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Artist Creation Himself Work
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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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General Meet Statement Value
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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 nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself

A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

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