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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.

Ezra Pound

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking

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