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Glance is the enemy of vision.

Ezra Pound

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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
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
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing

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