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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Pound

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
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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 concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public

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