Poetry is a very complex art, It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.
EZRA POUNDGood writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
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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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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
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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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With one day’s reading a man may have the key in his hands.
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What thou lovest well remains.
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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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Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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The serious artist must be as open as nature. Nature does not give all of herself in a paragraph. She is rugged and not set apart into discreet categories.
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The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language, and no single language is capable of expressing all forms and degrees of human comprehension.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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