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Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
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 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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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