A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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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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Every great change is simple.
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Either move or be moved.
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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