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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

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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
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
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon

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