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

Ezra Pound

The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image

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

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