The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
EZRA POUNDIf I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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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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Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Glance is the enemy of vision.
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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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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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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.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Every great change is simple.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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