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Ezra Pound

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
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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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race

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