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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.

Ezra Pound

The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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 thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
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
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
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race

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