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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

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