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

Ezra Pound

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
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
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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

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