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Technique is the test of sincerity.

Ezra Pound

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
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.
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Argument Oneself People Start Technique Truth
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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Addiction Appetite Discover Fact
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
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
Music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance, poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music.
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Beginning Dance Far Music Poetry
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
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something.
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Adjective Reveal Word
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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

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