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Ezra Pound

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
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
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
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test

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