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Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.

Ezra Pound

A man’s hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.
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Himself Hope Man Measurement Nation Time
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
The Image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
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Energy Ideas Image
The only history that matters is the history we know.
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History Known
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
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
The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.
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Action Curse Immediate Nation Sort Thinking
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
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight
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
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
Every great change is simple.
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Change Greatness One Liner Simplicity
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm

Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.

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