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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

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time

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