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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

I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk

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