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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Ezra Pound

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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
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
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol

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