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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

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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol

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