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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Ezra Pound

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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
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
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
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
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run

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