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Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Ezra Pound

Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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Accurate Clear Goodness Language Writing
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation

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