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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

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word

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