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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

Ezra Pound

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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 only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work

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