What thou lovest well remains.
EZRA POUNDGreat literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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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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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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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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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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