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

Ezra Pound

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
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
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light

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