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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.

Ezra Pound

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
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
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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
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
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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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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