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Ezra Pound

Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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

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