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Ezra Pound

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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
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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Heritage Love True Well
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing

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