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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

Ezra Pound

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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol

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