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The natural object is always the adequate symbol.

Ezra Pound

A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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Empire Grip Growth Lose People Process Writing
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars 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
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Poets who are not interested in music are, or become, bad poets.
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Bad Interest Music Poet
The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people.
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Act Imply People Point Quiet Ring Symbol
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
Don’t be blinded by the theorists and a lying press.
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Blind Lying Press Theory
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
Small talk comes from small bones.
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Body Bone Small Talk
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
Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.
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Compare Deserve Forever Glossary Master Necessary Reading
Pay no attention to the criticism of men who have never themselves written a notable work.
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Attention Criticism Pay Work Writing

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