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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Ezra Pound

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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