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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound

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
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
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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Curse Early Financial Ourselves Time
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

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