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Ezra Pound

Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
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
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
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
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry

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