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I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

Ezra Pound

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
No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking Writing
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
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
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 apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.
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Black Crowd Face Wet
The artist is the antenna of the race.
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Artist One Liner Race
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
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Capture Myself Silence
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Science is unpoetic only to minds jaundiced with sentiment and romanticism, the great masters of the past boasted all they could of it and found it magical.
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Finding Greatness Magic Master Mindset Romanticism Science
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Good art however ‘immoral’ is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
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Art Goodness Immoral Precise True Virtue
Why fight for a flag when you can buy one for a nickel.
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Fight Flag Yourself

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron, I should have been able to do better.

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