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Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

Ezra Pound

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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 act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
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
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner

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