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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.

Ezra Pound

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality

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