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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Ezra Pound

All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light

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