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This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.

Ezra Pound

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
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
If a nation’s literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
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Decline Education Literature Nation
Utter originality is, of course, out of the question.
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Course Original Question
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
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
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
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Difference Spring Tree Weapon
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
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Advertisement Science Soap Way
Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding in breeding, No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.
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Argument Avoid Clear Infiltrate Limitation Race Yourself
Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.
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Essential Language Poetry
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
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
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

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