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The only history that matters is the history we know.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
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

The only history that matters is the history we know.

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