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Rhythm must have meaning.

Ezra Pound

One 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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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
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Art Bound Convention Poetry Sound Symbol
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
Our own consciousness is incapable of having produce the universe. God, therefore, exists. That is to say, there is no reason for not applying the term God, Theos, to the intimate essence.
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Consciousness Essence Existence God Intimate Product Universe
Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
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Debt Implement Loan Modern Old Slave Time War
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
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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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity

Rhythm must have meaning.

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