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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

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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
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
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision

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