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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Ezra Pound

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
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
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
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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General Meet Statement Value
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

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