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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.

Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation

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