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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

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.
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Element Leaving Oneself Regular Rhyme
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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Education Insist Limit Reality
Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.
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Bond Imagination Oppression Talk
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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

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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