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Ezra Pound

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
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

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