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

Ezra Pound

The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way

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