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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.

Ezra Pound

Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself

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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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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