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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.

Ezra Pound

The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
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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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

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