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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

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word

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