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The thought of what America would be like If the Classics had a wide circulation Troubles my sleep (Cantico del Sole)
Ezra Pound
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Ezra Pound
Age: 87 †
Born: 1885
Born: October 30
Died: 1972
Died: November 1
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That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.
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You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'
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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there... Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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America, my country, is almost a continent and hardly yet a nation.
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