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Small talk comes from small bones.

Ezra Pound

Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
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 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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision

Small talk comes from small bones.

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