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Ezra Pound

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme

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