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The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

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