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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

Ezra Pound

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
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
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself

There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.

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