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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.

Ezra Pound

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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry

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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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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