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What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

Ezra Pound

Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.

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