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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

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
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

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