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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Ezra Pound

Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion

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