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.
EZRA POUNDFundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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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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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Literature is news that stays news.
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When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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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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Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Every great change is simple.
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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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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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