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The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.

Ezra Pound

Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
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
The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
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
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
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
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
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
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry

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