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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Ezra Pound

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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
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

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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