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Ezra Pound

Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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

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