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Ezra Pound

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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

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