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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.

Ezra Pound

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet

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