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Wars are made to make debt.

Ezra Pound

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

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