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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.

Ezra Pound

It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
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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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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

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