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The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

Ezra Pound

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
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
With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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Day Hands Key Man Reading
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’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
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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
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
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
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

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

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