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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
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
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing

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