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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

What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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 sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave

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