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

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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing

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