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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

Ezra Pound

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
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

I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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