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

Ezra Pound

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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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