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From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.

Ezra Pound

A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.
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Freedom Himself Slave
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
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Heritage Love True Well
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
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Book Man Touch
Poetry must be as well written as prose.
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Literature Poetry Prose Writing
It doesn’t matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.
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Finish Solid Stand Table Yourself
The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
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Art Curiosity Letters Survive Willing
Wars are made to make debt.
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Loan One Liner War
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
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
If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
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Artist Build Creation Equality Money World
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
Genius, is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
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Genius Man Oneself Ordinary Sight

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