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Ezra Pound

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word

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