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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Ezra Pound

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth

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