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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.

Ezra Pound

To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter

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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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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