Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
EZRA POUNDBureaucrats 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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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Rhythm must have meaning.
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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Small talk comes from small bones.
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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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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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Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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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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To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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