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Artists are the antennae of the race.

Ezra Pound

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner

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