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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Ezra Pound

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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing

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