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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

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
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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 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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
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
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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