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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.

Ezra Pound

Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay

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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