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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

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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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 little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race

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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