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Ezra Pound

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
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
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry

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