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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.

Ezra Pound

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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 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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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 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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing

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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