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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

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree.
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Charge Degree Greatness Literature Meaning Possible
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
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Attention Himself Page Popular Reading Secret Writing
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage True Well
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
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
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth
Any damn fool can be spontaneous.
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Fools One Liner Spontaneous
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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
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
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason

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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