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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

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
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
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race

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