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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

Ezra Pound

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 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 two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.

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