All great art is born of the metropolis.
EZRA POUNDA 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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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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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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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Every great change is simple.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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