Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
EZRA POUNDThe only history that matters is the history we know.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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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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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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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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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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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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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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Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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