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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

Ezra Pound

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
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
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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 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

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