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Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

Ezra Pound

The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner

Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.

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