Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
EZRA POUNDEvery great change is simple.
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Every great change is simple.
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The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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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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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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What matters is not the idea a man holds, but the depth at which he holds it.
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Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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