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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

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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
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
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing

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