Small talk comes from small bones.
EZRA POUNDPoets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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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.
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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 difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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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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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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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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