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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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