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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.

Ezra Pound

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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

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