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Ezra Pound

This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
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 classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Chance Kill Oneself People Problem Reality Right War
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers.
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Better Friendship Pity Remember Rich
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence

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