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The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

Ezra Pound

No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
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Goodness Life Reality Thinking 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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
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
Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
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General Meet Statement Value
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
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
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
I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.
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Desire Dust Forever Myself Yourself
To say that a state cannot pursue its aims because there is no money, is like saying that an engineer cannot build roads, because there are no kilometers.
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Build Money Pursue State
Rhythm is form cut into time.
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Form Rhythm Time
When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.
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Close Diminish Empire Word
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.
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Human Language Sum Wisdom
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
Technique is the test of sincerity.
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Sincere Technique Test
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay

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