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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Ezra Pound

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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World

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