Utter originality is of course out of the question.

Ezra Pound
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  2. More than once I should have lost my soul to radicalism if it had been the originality it was mistaken for by its young converts. - Robert Frost

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  4. Unlike written words which can mend those leaving the tip of your tongue never bend. - R.J. Green

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  1. Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

  2. It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.

  3. The Garden En robe de parade. - SamainLike a skein of loose silk blown against a wall She walks by the railing of a path in Kensington Gardens, And she is dying piece-mealof a sort of emotional anaemia. And round about there is a rabble...

  4. L'artGreen arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.

  5. And round about there is a rabble Of the filthy, sturdy, unkillable infants of the very poor. They shall inherit the earth.

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