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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound

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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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time

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