Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
EZRA POUNDBe not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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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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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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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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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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The artist is always beginning.
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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.
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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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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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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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