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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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom

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