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Technique is the test of sincerity.

Ezra Pound

Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time

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