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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

A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol

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