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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

What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself

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