Poetry must be as well written as prose.
EZRA POUNDPoetry must be as well written as prose.
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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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Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Rhythm is form cut into time.
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The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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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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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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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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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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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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The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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