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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

Ezra Pound

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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
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
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity

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