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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

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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

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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