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Ezra Pound

From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
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Color Nature Togetherness Tree
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
What matters most is not the idea, but the capacity to believe in it completely.
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Believe Capacity Complete Ideas
I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.
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Definition Mad Man Myself Surround
I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
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Myself Oneself Suicide Thinking Unknown
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
When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
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Agreement Business Man Necessary Oneself
Either move or be moved.
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Choice Deep Move One Liner
It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
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Artist Aware Business Humanity
What thou lovest well remains.
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Love One Liner Remain
All great art is born of the metropolis.
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Art Born Greatness Metropolis
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
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 primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
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Image Poetry Primary
Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use.
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Ability Existence Function Literature Main Writing
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

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