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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Ezra Pound

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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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image

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