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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Ezra Pound

A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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 artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
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

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