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Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
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
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work

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