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Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound

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
A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
Humanity is the rich effluvium, it is the waste and the manure and the soil, and from it grows the tree of the arts.
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Art Growth Humanity Tree Waste
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
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
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

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