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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.

Ezra Pound

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
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

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