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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

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.
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Approval Ban Believe Music View
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
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
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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
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
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.
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Age Greatness Time Translation
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet

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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