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Liberty is not a right but a duty.

Ezra Pound

Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
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
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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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
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
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter

Liberty is not a right but a duty.

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