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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

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World

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