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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Ezra Pound

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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World

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