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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.

Ezra Pound

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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 did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision

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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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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