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A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.

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Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
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
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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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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Care Concept Genius Inferior Madness Public

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