Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDOur 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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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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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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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Wars are made to make debt.
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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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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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