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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

Ezra Pound

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
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
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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 Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War

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