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

Ezra Pound

If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading

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