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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

If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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 temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas

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