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What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

Ezra Pound

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
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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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter

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