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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Ezra Pound

One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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
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
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
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
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time

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