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

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
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

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