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If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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