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Ezra Pound

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
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
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image

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