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In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

Ezra Pound

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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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
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
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
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

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.

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