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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Ezra Pound

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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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 natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
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
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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

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