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A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

Ezra Pound

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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 real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch

A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

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