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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.

Ezra Pound

Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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 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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry

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