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Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Ezra Pound

The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

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