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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

Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
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
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
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

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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