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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

Ezra Pound

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree

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