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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Ezra Pound

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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
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
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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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run

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