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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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 civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

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