What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
EZRA POUNDHumanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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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.
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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Every great change is simple.
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The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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