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Ezra Pound

When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
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
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence

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