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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

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit.
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Body Chemicals Death Limitation Moments Necessary
Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Marketing Print Worth Writing
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
The temple is holy because it is not for sale.
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Holy Sale Temple
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Literature is news that stays news.
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Literature News One Liner Stay
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that’s been foisted on to him.
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Blame Hero Himself Religion Stand Wisdom
Artists are the antennae of the race.
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Artist Race
I would hold the rosy, slender fingers of the dawn for you.
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Fingers Hold Morning Myself
Rhythm must have meaning.
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Meaning One Liner Rhythm
Use no word that under stress of emotion you could not actually say.
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Emotion Stress Word Yourself
A little light, like a rushlight to lead back to splendour.
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Glamour Leadership Light
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
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
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
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Duty Liberty One Liner Right
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

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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