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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

Ezra Pound

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
The artist is always beginning.
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Artist Beginning One Liner
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
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

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