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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Ezra Pound

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
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
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
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
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

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