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

Ezra Pound

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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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