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The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

Ezra Pound

Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
To break the pentameter, that was the first heaven.
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Break Heaven Parameter
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
The what is so much more important than how.
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Important Reason
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
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
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
A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.
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Expression Genius Man Mode Right
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
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
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Adequate Natural One Liner Symbol
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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Age Book Growth Man Reason
The modern artist must live by craft and violence. His gods are violent gods. Those artists, so called, whose work does not show this strife, are uninteresting.
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Artist Craft Interest Live Modern Violence
A real building is one on which the eye can light and stay lit.
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Build Eyes Light Reality Stay
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 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
I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn’t irascible.
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Myself Racism Worth

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