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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

Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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

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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