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Ezra Pound

Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well

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