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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Ezra Pound

There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
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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Better Finding Mental Myself
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
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
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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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight

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