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Ezra Pound

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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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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Better Finding Mental Myself
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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

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