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The artist is the antenna of the race.

Ezra Pound

The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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 technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
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
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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
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
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary

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