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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

I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain

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