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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

Ezra Pound

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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
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
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing

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