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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

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
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
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake

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