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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Ezra Pound

With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol

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