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

Ezra Pound

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
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Book Content Deep Live Man See Understand
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
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
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
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Cancer Life World
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
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
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
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
What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Himself Hold Ideas Man
One discards rhyme, not because one is incapable of rhyming neat, fleet, sweet, meet, treat, eat, feet but because there are certain emotions or energies which are nor represented by the over-familiar devices or patterns.
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Device Emotion Energy Familiar Oneself Pattern Represent Rhyme

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