Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. . . poetry begins to atrophy … - Ezra Pound

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A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance. . . poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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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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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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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

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In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dreams.

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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.

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