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Ezra Pound

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
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
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
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State

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