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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

Ezra Pound

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
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
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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
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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
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

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