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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

Ezra Pound

To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
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
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
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

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