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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

Ezra Pound

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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