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All great art is born of the metropolis.

Ezra Pound

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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
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
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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

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