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Ezra Pound

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

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