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Ezra Pound

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
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
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
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity

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