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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Ezra Pound

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
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

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