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The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Ezra Pound

What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
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
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value

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