Rhythm must have meaning.
EZRA POUNDOne discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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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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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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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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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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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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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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Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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The artist is always beginning.
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Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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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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What thou lovest well remains.
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