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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

Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
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
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a ‘country run by Jews,’
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Country Definition Democracy Run
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well

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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