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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

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
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
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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

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