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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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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
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
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image

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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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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