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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
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
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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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Day Enough Night Shake
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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.
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Heritage Love True Well
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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