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Ezra Pound

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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
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 history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing

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