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Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
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
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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

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