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Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

Ezra Pound

The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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Artist Category Herself Nature Paragraph Serious
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
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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

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