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Glance is the enemy of vision.

Ezra Pound

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
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural

Glance is the enemy of vision.

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