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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Ezra Pound

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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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.
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Better Finding Mental Myself
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

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