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When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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
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

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

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