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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

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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
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
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

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