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

Ezra Pound

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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading

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

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