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

Ezra Pound

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself

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