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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

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay

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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