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A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.

Ezra Pound

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 flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision

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