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Ezra Pound

It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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 artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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

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