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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.

Ezra Pound

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
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
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
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

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