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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Ezra Pound

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
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
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
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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Expression Human Language Sum Wisdom
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

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