No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
EZRA POUNDIn 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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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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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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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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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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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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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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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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The what is so much more important than how.
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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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