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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.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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

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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