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

Ezra Pound

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
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
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
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 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
Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.
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Average Cheap Desire Mediocre
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
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.
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Mistake Prejudice Stupidity Worst
A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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Classic Definition Forever Fresh Rule Structure
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right

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