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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Ezra Pound

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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
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
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing

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