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

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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

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