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Ezra Pound

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
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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

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