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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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 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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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