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

Ezra Pound

I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

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