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A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

Ezra Pound

Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Artist Creation Himself Work
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
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Accurate Fundamental Moral Oneself Writing
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
If a man isn’t willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he’s no good.
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Himself Man Opinion Risk Willing
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
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
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

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