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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.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence

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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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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