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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

Ezra Pound

Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
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
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent

The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.

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