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Ezra Pound

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
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
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
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
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
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War

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