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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.

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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
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
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question

Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.

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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.

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