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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.

Ezra Pound

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
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
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 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
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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

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