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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.

Ezra Pound

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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
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
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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