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

Ezra Pound

Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run

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