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Ezra Pound

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
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move 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
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
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 two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself

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