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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.

Ezra Pound

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

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