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Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.

Ezra Pound

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well

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