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

Ezra Pound

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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself

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