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Ezra Pound

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
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
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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

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