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Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

Ezra Pound

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 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
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
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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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

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