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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

Ezra Pound

Our 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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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
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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Better Finding Mental Myself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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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General Meet Statement Value
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself

Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

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Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.

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