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

Ezra Pound

Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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