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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Ezra Pound

Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

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