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The artist is the antenna of the race.

Ezra Pound

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
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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 artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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

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