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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War

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