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Ezra Pound

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
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
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis

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