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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.

Ezra Pound

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.

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