I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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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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It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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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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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Every great change is simple.
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