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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

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol

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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