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A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.

Ezra Pound

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
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Artist Green Invention Learning Place True World
There is natural ignorance and there is artificial ignorance. I should say at the present moment the artificial ignorance is about eighty-five per cent.
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Artificial Ignorance Moments Myself Natural
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.
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Alive Ball Hands Intense Light One Liner Power Reading
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or mediocrity.
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Average Failure History Master Work
Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
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Ourselves Poetry Stars Willing
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.
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Artist Beginning Discover Invention Worth
Religion I have defined as “Another of those numerous failures resulting from an attempt to popularize art”.
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Art Definition Failure Myself Popular Religion
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
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Complication Death Himself Man Organism
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
Glance is the enemy of vision.
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Enemy One Liner Vision
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
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Book Generation Learning Lost Transmitted
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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Answer Balance Civilization Serious Value
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

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