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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

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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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

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

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