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Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
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
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
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
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence

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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