A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
EZRA POUNDIt 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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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Humanity 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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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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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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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