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If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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