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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.

Ezra Pound

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 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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
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
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk

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