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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.

Ezra Pound

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity

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