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The only history that matters is the history we know.

Ezra Pound

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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
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

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