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

Ezra Pound

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth 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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself

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

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