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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Ezra Pound

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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself

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