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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.

Ezra Pound

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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

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