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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.

Ezra Pound

Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet

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