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

Ezra Pound

Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.
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Ability Art Genius Himself Man Material Ordinary Perception Talent
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 what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass.
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Day Enough Night Shake
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.
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History International Politics Yourself
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race 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

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

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