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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
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
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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

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