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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.

Ezra Pound

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
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing

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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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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