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

Ezra Pound

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
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
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
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 flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing

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

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