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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

Ezra Pound

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself

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