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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
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 artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test

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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