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

Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner 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
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
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
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
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay

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