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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Ezra Pound

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

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