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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.
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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence

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